Bremen/Lilienthal – There is land here!
There has been a state of emergency in Lilienthal near Bremen for several days. The water rises and rises, flooding residential areas. The power has failed or been turned off in entire streets. As of Thursday morning, around 300 people had to be brought to safety.
Pump out and hope: The water is only a few meters in front of the houses
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The flood situation in the district of Timmersloh, a small farming village in front of Lilienthal, is dramatic. Almost 200 people and a few more animals live here on a dozen farms.
Am Limit: Bauer Johann-Peter Weber (67) …
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… tries to save a few bales of hay with his mini tractor
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One of them is Johann-Peter Weber (67). The farmer has lived here for decades, and this is the first time his farm has been under water. “I have never experienced anything like it. Everything’s wet, where’s it going to end?”
Weber tries to save what can be saved, carting bales of hay out into the dry. He passes some SUVs with trailers on his way. “People have to move their animals,” he says. Pastures and stables are also largely flooded.
Streets – that was once. There is no longer anything to be seen here from either the small or the large dam, and certainly not from the pastureland
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A few hundred meters further, residents look at the water, which now stretches like a sea over the Borgfelder Wümmewiesen. A sign indicates 30 km/h “Am Großen Moordamm” – but cars no longer drive here.
“Now the world is ending here,” murmurs a shocked woman as the fire department uses a huge hose to flush water from the ditches into the floods.
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The view from the plane over the flood disaster near Bremen
It is also a fight against complete isolation. A fire department spokesman: “70 percent of Timmersloh is surrounded by water.” The road to Bremen and Lilienthal is closed. What seemed unimaginable has become reality.
Where there were once roads and pastures, now only water can be seen
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In order to save the situation as best as possible, the police have set up an operations center on site so that they can react quickly. The goal: to somehow keep the rest of the village above the water level. And Farmer Johann’s farm.
2023-12-28 16:18:58
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