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Extreme Weather: How will Europe prepare for the next flood?

2013-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ClimateWire: German officials reacted with alarm when they found themselves not quite prepared last month for the worst flooding in 400 years. In mid-June, during the third week of the deluge, Germany found itself short of sandbags. Its neighbors -- the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and Denmark -- quickly came to Germany's aid and provided 1.65 million empty sandbags. According to a report in Der Speigel, government sources would only talk about the crisis on condition of anonymity, as this kind of shortfall...

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