The immense damage is only slowly becoming visible. “The flood situation is still serious, but the situation is clearly easing in many areas,” said the Saarland Ministry of the Interior on Saturday. For the most part, the water is slowly receding. On Sunday night the situation was initially unchanged.
“It is simply too early for both clean-up work and assessments of the damage,” said a spokeswoman for the Trier-Saarburg district of the German Press Agency. Drones have now been requested to get an overview of the extent of the damage from above.
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Water levels are declining
The Saarland state capital Saarbrücken, as the lower disaster control authority, has lifted the major damage situation after the severe floods. The acute rescue and safety measures have been completed and the water levels continue to decline, the city’s press office announced on Saturday evening.
Enormous amounts of rain in Saarland on Friday and Saturday night caused flooding, landslides and likely high levels of damage. In the state capital Saarbrücken, the city highway was under water and had to be closed. A coal-fired power plant in Saarland was also flooded, as several media reported. The authorities also feared that the historic old town of Blieskastel would be flooded.
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Image: HELMUT FRICKE (APA/dpa/Helmut Fricke)
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