In July 2021, a flood disaster nearly erases a small valley in Western Germany. 134 people die along the Ahr River, which is normally an idyllic tourist destination. What happened on that night ...

While residents slept, the river breached its banks. On the evening of 14 July 2021, torrential rain in western Germany’s Ahr Valley caused a 45 km stretch of destruction. Buildings, vineyards ...

Cars were washed down cobbled roads and flipped into the river. Bridges were ... January's constant rain on the Ahr and the images of flooding in northern and eastern Germany did not frighten ...