> At least eight people have died and dozens of people are missing in Germany after heavy flooding turned streams and streets into raging torrents, sweeping away cars and causing some buildings to collapse.<p>I really don’t know what to make of these understatements here…<p>The official number of victims (deaths) is already at 140, and that’s the number from yesterday.<p>Also, it’s not “some buildings” – at least some villages do, for all practical purposes, no longer exist in their entirety.
Sadly more than 100 people have died now in Germany alone. Many others have lost everything (insurance against elementary damage is always optional).
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I feel like the climate is falling apart orders of magnitude faster than we thought it would. Heat waves, greek-lettered hurricanes, floods, and other extreme weather events were supposed to be decades out.<p>Are we really going to get ahead of this thing?