Rescuers are frantically searching flooded towns in Rhineland-Palatinate, a southwest German state bordered by France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and North-Rhine Westphalia, a western German state.<\/p>\n
Thousands of people are homeless, and the German army has deployed 900 soldiers to assist rescuers and the clean-up effort.<\/p>\n The photographs below show the extent of the damage. Some meteorologists have said the weather event was considered a “100-year rainstorm.”<\/p>\n Rescuers walk the streets of a shopping district in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany. Many of the shops have been devastated by the flooding.<\/p>\n Flooding in parts of the Blessem district of Erftstadt, Germany, wiped out homes, streets, and infrastructure.<\/p>\n Here’s what remains of a neighborhood in Schuld.<\/p>\n Reuters reports 114,000 households in western Germany are without power Friday night.<\/p>\n The Ahr River overflowed and decimated the town of Insul, Germany.<\/p>\n Cars piled up in one German town after intense flooding.<\/p>\n The ground under one town completely gave way.<\/p>\n Images from North Rhine-Westphalia.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/flooding%20map.png?itok=zQ9OzQek\")
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