Residents of Erftstadt struggle to comprehend how their familiar landscape became treacherous terrain
natoli Neugebauer is standing just a hundred metres from his family home, at the edge of the Blessem district of Erftstadt, a commuter-belt town 12 miles south of Cologne. Even though flood waters from the Erft River had begun to recede by midday on Friday, he still had to wade through waist-high brown water just to get inside the stuccoed terrace house.“I was there twice yesterday trying to save what I could.
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