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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Election posters for the Bundestag elections near Grafschaft not far from the flood disaster area in the Ahr valley, 3.9.2021.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Election posters for the Bundestag elections near the village of Vettelhoven not far from the flood disaster area in the Ahr valley, 3.9.2021.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
David Mu?ller, Blacksmith from Franken, Bavaria works in the volunteer camp on 01.09.2021 near Grafschaft. David and another blacksmith have so far re-sharpened over 350 boron hammer chisels. This is important work so that the tools are available for the demolition work.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Franz Josef Michael Graf - Trumpeter from Wu?rzburg, Bavaria, on a mission to lift the mood of Ahrweilers - and David Mu?ller, Blacksmith from Franken, Bavaria performe together a song in the volunteer camp on 01.09.2021 near Grafschaft. David and another blacksmith have so far re-sharpened over 350 boron hammer chisels. This is important work so that the tools are available for the demolition work.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Thomas Puetz, organiser of the volunteer camp and helper shuttle, pictured in the camp, on 01.09.2021 near Grafschaft.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Thomas Puetz, organiser of the volunteer camp and helper shuttle, his happy to receives boron hammers in the camp, on 01.09.2021 near Grafschaft.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Supply depot in Walporzheim, 01.09.2021.
Residents can get building materials and things for their daily needs here. A container village is being built to accommodate residents whose houses are uninhabitable and helpers. Tractors are repaired here.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Supply depot in Walporzheim, 01.09.2021.
Residents can get building materials and things for their daily needs here. A container village is being built to accommodate residents whose houses are uninhabitable and helpers. Tractors are repaired here.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Martin Schmitt, Green party candidate for Ahrweiler in federal elections, pictured at a destroyed bridge in Insul, 31.08.2021. In the background are foundations of destroyed houses in the Ahr. The Ahr was forced into a new course at this point. After the catastrophe, the river runs in its old bed again. Now the discussion is how the river should run and whether houses should still be rebuilt in the flood zones.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Insul, 31.08.2021. In the background are foundations of destroyed houses in the Ahr. The Ahr was forced into a new course at this point. After the catastrophe, the river runs in its old bed again. Now the discussion is how the river should run and whether houses should still be rebuilt in the flood zones.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Martin Schmitt, Green party candidate for Ahrweiler in federal elections, pictured at a destroyed bridge in Insul, 31.08.2021. In the background are foundations of destroyed houses in the Ahr. The Ahr was forced into a new course at this point. After the catastrophe, the river runs in its old bed again. Now the discussion is how the river should run and whether houses should still be rebuilt in the flood zones.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Helper Dirk has been distributing coffee, rolls and cakes, donated by a baker, to volunteers and residents every day for 4 weeks with his old Volvo, Walporzheim on 31.08.2021. Dirk is no longer allowed to work because of 4 strokes. Lives on social welfare. He has a new job in the Ahr valley, which he does with pleasure.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Marcus Zintel - owner of Zintelbau firm, and operator of the rubbish tip in Walpforzheim, 31.08.2021.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Marcus Zintel - owner of Zintelbau firm, and operator of the rubbish tip in Walpforzheim, 31.08.2021.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Marcus Zintel - owner of Zintelbau firm, and operator of the rubbish tip in Walpforzheim, 31.08.2021.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Marcus Zintel - owner of Zintelbau firm, and operator of the rubbish tip in Walpforzheim, 31.08.2021.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Thousands of cars occupied by the flood lie on a site in Bade Neuenahr, 31.08.2021.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Thousands of cars occupied by the flood lie on a site in Bade Neuenahr, 31.08.2021.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Cemetery in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, 30.08.2021.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
A varnish with the inscription "Enough! The bureaucracy of the KV (district administration) is ruining things".The resident is angry because, in her opinion, the authorities are taking too long to decide whether the house is at risk of collapse and must be demolished or can be rebuilt.
Bad Neuenahr Ahrweiler on 30.08.2021.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Steffi and her kids Leonie (9) Max (5) light one of the many candles on the banks of the river Ahr in memory of the dead of the flood disaster in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, 30.08.2021.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Steffi and her kids Leonie (9) Max (5) light one of the many candles on the banks of the river Ahr in memory of the dead of the flood disaster in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, 30.08.2021.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Friends, employees and family of Paddy Amanatidis pave the courtyard of their restaurant La Perla Restaurant in Bad Neuenahr Ahrweiler on 30.08.2021. They had to tear out the stones with the foundation after the mud from the flood had been removed. Now the stones are being laid anew.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Paddy Amanatidis shows a photo on her mobile phone of how it was previously decorated for a wedding celebration in the courtyard.
Friends, employees and family of Paddy Amanatidis pave the courtyard of their restaurant La Perla Restaurant in Bad Neuenahr Ahrweiler on 30.08.2021. They had to tear out the stones with the foundation after the mud from the flood had been removed. Now the stones are being laid anew.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Paddy Amanatidis shows a photo on her mobile phone of how it was previously decorated for a wedding celebration in the courtyard.
Friends, employees and family of Paddy Amanatidis pave the courtyard of their restaurant La Perla Restaurant in Bad Neuenahr Ahrweiler on 30.08.2021. They had to tear out the stones with the foundation after the mud from the flood had been removed. Now the stones are being laid anew.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Friends, employees and family of Paddy Amanatidis (R) pave the courtyard of their restaurant La Perla Restaurant in Bad Neuenahr Ahrweiler on 30.08.2021. They had to tear out the stones with the foundation after the mud from the flood had been removed. Now the stones are being laid anew.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, 30.08.2021.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
The pupils Justus (9) and Julius (7) walk through the city centre of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, 30.08.2021.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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‘We had little choice’: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A €30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Stefan Bungartz, Ahrweiler having his hair cut by Barber Angle Janine Kroß, from Trier, for free in a trailer, Bad Neuenahr Ahrweiler, 30.08.2021.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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‘We had little choice’: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A €30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Stefan Bungartz, Ahrweiler having his hair cut by Barber Angle Janine Kroß, from Trier, for free in a trailer, Bad Neuenahr Ahrweiler, 30.08.2021.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Hairdresser Silke Wolf cut the hair of residents and volunteers for free in a trailer, Bad Neuenahr Ahrweiler, 30.08.2021.
Reportage Ahr Valley 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Ehrenwall'sche Klinik, Bad Neuenahr Ahrweiler, 30.08.2021.
Reportage Ahrtal 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Schoolchildren run along the Ahr on the first school day after the holidays, Bad Neuenahr Ahrweiler, 30.08.2021.
Reportage Ahrtal 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Wolfgang Fobes - Care director of Ehrenwall'sche Klinik, Bad Neuenahr Ahrweiler, shows the cellar rooms on 30.08.2021. Helpers left drawings and handprints on the walls with their mud-smeared hands as they brought the mud out of the basement and ground floor in "bucket chains".
Reportage Ahrtal 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Wolfgang Fobes - Care director of Ehrenwall'sche Klinik, Bad Neuenahr Ahrweiler, shows the cellar rooms on 30.08.2021. Helpers left drawings and handprints on the walls with their mud-smeared hands as they brought the mud out of the basement and ground floor in "bucket chains".
Reportage Ahrtal 6 weeks after the flood disaster.
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Heike Wolfgang Fobes, Care director, and Heike Heideck, Head of Hospital administration, look after the renovation work of a building of the Ehrenwall'sche Klinik, Bad Neuenahr Ahrweiler, 30.08.2021. They smile at a 'video surveillance' sign as they stand in front of a building that was destroyed by the floods and is currently being renovated. It is a very special kind of gallows humour with which the people of the Ahr valley face the catastrophe.
Reportage Ahrtal, 6 Wochen nach der Flut-Katastrophe vom 31.08. bis 01.09.2021. Foto: Thomas Lohnes
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Workmen repair the gas supply in the basement of Ehrenwall's clinic, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, 30.08.2021. The gas line was torn away by the flood disaster. Thousands of residents have no gas connection and have to put gas tanks in front of their houses. They are in short supply and some of them cannot be delivered until the end of November.
Reportage Ahrtal 6 weeks after the flood disaster.Foto: Thomas Lohnes
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ëWe had little choiceí: volunteers clear up after German floods Two months after 133 people died in the Ahr valley, residents say they feel abandoned by politicians
It is now almost two months since western Germany experienced catastrophic flooding as a torrential downpour saw the river Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine, rise by seven metres and envelop everything in its path as it spread far beyond its banks. At least 133 died in the Ahr valley alone, and about 50 more elsewhere. While the mud and water that even reached some rooftops has now largely been cleared, a desolate landscape remains. Buildings are reduced to grubby hollow shells, with their owners waiting to hear from the local construction office if they can be rebuilt or will have to be pulled down. Railway tracks are suspended like rope ladders where hillsides have slipped into the valley and huge rubbish tips dot the landscape. About 42,000 people have been affected, many of whom have lost their homes.
But across the region, the painstaking reconstruction operation is in full swing, the air thrumming with generators and dehumidifiers, the thud of jackhammers and mechanical diggers. A Ä30bn rescue fund was approved by the Bundestag this week and those who were uninsured, or inadequately so, are to receive 80% of the funding towards reconstruction costs.
Wolfgang Fobes, Care director, and Heike Heideck, Head of Hospital administration, look after the renovation work of a building of the Ehrenwall'sche Klinik, Bad Neuenahr Ahrweiler, 30.08.2021.
Reportage Ahrtal, 6 weeks after the flood disaster from 30.08. to 01.09.2021 to the text by Kate Conolly. Photo by Thomas Lohnes
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Nach dem Jahrhunderthochwasser in der Eifel durch heftige Regenfälle und Dauerregen mit Überschwemmungen und Überflutungen haben die Aufräumarbeiten im Ahrtal große Fortschritte gemacht. Einheiten von Polizei, THW, Bundeswehr und Feuerwehr mitsamt vielen freiwilligen Helfern haben Straßen geräumt, Schutt und Schlamm entfernt und die Menschen versorgt. Der Wiederaufbau wird trotzdem Jahre dauern. Im Bild Flutschäden in der Ortschaft Mayschoß, in der die Flut viele Häuser zerstörte
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NEWS - Jahrhundertflut Deutschland: Aufräumarbeiten im Ahrtal
Nach dem Jahrhunderthochwasser in der Eifel durch heftige Regenfälle und Dauerregen mit Überschwemmungen und Überflutungen haben die Aufräumarbeiten im Ahrtal große Fortschritte gemacht. Einheiten von Polizei, THW, Bundeswehr und Feuerwehr mitsamt vielen freiwilligen Helfern haben Straßen geräumt, Schutt und Schlamm entfernt und die Menschen versorgt. Der Wiederaufbau wird trotzdem Jahre dauern. Im Bild Flutschäden in der Ortschaft Mayschoß, in der die Flut viele Häuser zerstörte
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NEWS - Jahrhundertflut Deutschland: Aufräumarbeiten im Ahrtal
Nach dem Jahrhunderthochwasser in der Eifel durch heftige Regenfälle und Dauerregen mit Überschwemmungen und Überflutungen haben die Aufräumarbeiten im Ahrtal große Fortschritte gemacht. Einheiten von Polizei, THW, Bundeswehr und Feuerwehr mitsamt vielen freiwilligen Helfern haben Straßen geräumt, Schutt und Schlamm entfernt und die Menschen versorgt. Der Wiederaufbau wird trotzdem Jahre dauern. Im Bild Flutschäden an einer Brücke zwischen Rech und Mayschoß, die durch die Flut beschädigt wurde
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NEWS - Jahrhundertflut Deutschland: Aufräumarbeiten im Ahrtal
Nach dem Jahrhunderthochwasser in der Eifel durch heftige Regenfälle und Dauerregen mit Überschwemmungen und Überflutungen haben die Aufräumarbeiten im Ahrtal große Fortschritte gemacht. Einheiten von Polizei, THW, Bundeswehr und Feuerwehr mitsamt vielen freiwilligen Helfern haben Straßen geräumt, Schutt und Schlamm entfernt und die Menschen versorgt. Der Wiederaufbau wird trotzdem Jahre dauern. Im Bild Flutschäden in der Ortschaft Mayschoß, in der die Flut viele Häuser zerstörte
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NEWS - Jahrhundertflut Deutschland: Aufräumarbeiten im Ahrtal
Nach dem Jahrhunderthochwasser in der Eifel durch heftige Regenfälle und Dauerregen mit Überschwemmungen und Überflutungen haben die Aufräumarbeiten im Ahrtal große Fortschritte gemacht. Einheiten von Polizei, THW, Bundeswehr und Feuerwehr mitsamt vielen freiwilligen Helfern haben Straßen geräumt, Schutt und Schlamm entfernt und die Menschen versorgt. Der Wiederaufbau wird trotzdem Jahre dauern. Im Bild Flutschäden an einer Eisenbahnbrücke in der Ortschaft Altenahr, in der die Flut viele Häuser zerstörte
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*** Flood aftermath, Eifel low mountain range, Germany - 08 Aug 2021 *** *** Local Caption *** 36385758
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Nach dem Jahrhunderthochwasser in der Eifel durch heftige Regenfälle und Dauerregen mit Überschwemmungen und Überflutungen haben die Aufräumarbeiten im Ahrtal große Fortschritte gemacht. Einheiten von Polizei, THW, Bundeswehr und Feuerwehr mitsamt vielen freiwilligen Helfern haben Straßen geräumt, Schutt und Schlamm entfernt und die Menschen versorgt. Der Wiederaufbau wird trotzdem Jahre dauern. Im Bild Flutschäden an einer Brücke zwischen Rech und Mayschoß, die durch die Flut beschädigt wurde
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*** Flood aftermath, Eifel low mountain range, Germany - 08 Aug 2021 *** *** Local Caption *** 36385738
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Nach dem Jahrhunderthochwasser in der Eifel durch heftige Regenfälle und Dauerregen mit Überschwemmungen und Überflutungen haben die Aufräumarbeiten im Ahrtal große Fortschritte gemacht. Einheiten von Polizei, THW, Bundeswehr und Feuerwehr mitsamt vielen freiwilligen Helfern haben Straßen geräumt, Schutt und Schlamm entfernt und die Menschen versorgt. Der Wiederaufbau wird trotzdem Jahre dauern. Im Bild Flutschäden in der Ortschaft Rech, in der die Flut viele Häuser zerstörte
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*** Flood aftermath, Eifel low mountain range, Germany - 08 Aug 2021 *** *** Local Caption *** 36385712
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NEWS - Jahrhundertflut Deutschland: Aufräumarbeiten im Ahrtal
Nach dem Jahrhunderthochwasser in der Eifel durch heftige Regenfälle und Dauerregen mit Überschwemmungen und Überflutungen haben die Aufräumarbeiten im Ahrtal große Fortschritte gemacht. Einheiten von Polizei, THW, Bundeswehr und Feuerwehr mitsamt vielen freiwilligen Helfern haben Straßen geräumt, Schutt und Schlamm entfernt und die Menschen versorgt. Der Wiederaufbau wird trotzdem Jahre dauern. Im Bild Flutschäden in der Ortschaft Altenahr, in der die Flut viele Häuser zerstörte
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*** Flood aftermath, Eifel low mountain range, Germany - 08 Aug 2021 *** *** Local Caption *** 36385757
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*** Flood aftermath, Eifel low mountain range, Germany - 08 Aug 2021 *** *** Local Caption *** 36385719
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Nach dem Jahrhunderthochwasser in der Eifel durch heftige Regenfälle und Dauerregen mit Überschwemmungen und Überflutungen haben die Aufräumarbeiten im Ahrtal große Fortschritte gemacht. Einheiten von Polizei, THW, Bundeswehr und Feuerwehr mitsamt vielen freiwilligen Helfern haben Straßen geräumt, Schutt und Schlamm entfernt und die Menschen versorgt. Der Wiederaufbau wird trotzdem Jahre dauern. Im Bild Flutschäden an einer Brücke zwischen Rech und Mayschoß, die durch die Flut beschädigt wurde
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*** Flood aftermath, Eifel low mountain range, Germany - 08 Aug 2021 *** *** Local Caption *** 36385710
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