The aftermath of the German floods
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
When parts of Belgium, the Netherlands and western Germany were hit by flooding earlier this month, it left a trail of devastation and over a hundred dead. As the flood waters subsided and locals dealt with the clean up operation, a blame game erupted.
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| 1:03.2 | and it's 20 miles or so, southwest of Cologne. |
| 1:07.1 | As catastrophic floods hit parts of Belgium, the Netherlands and Western Germany, |
| 1:12.4 | earlier this month, killing more than 200 people, |
| 1:16.4 | the Times Berlin correspondent Oliver Moody, |
| 1:19.0 | went to report on the trail of destruction they'd left behind. |
| 1:22.9 | And if you've seen the maps charting the intensity of the rainfall in the Rhineland, |
| 1:28.8 | it's absolutely slap bang in the middle of the deluge. |
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