Currently germany is sinking. It's a bigger flood disaster as August 2002 The worst affected areas at the moment are Saxony (Leipzig, Dresden, Gera and their counties..) and Bavaria (Passau or the Deggendorf district...) have the highest ermegency alert level active. Some villages in the District of Deggendorf are completed flooded and single-family homes stand up to the roof in the water. Citizens and civil protection in the areas along the river "Elbe" are preparing to fight the flood with sandbags and sheet piling. They expect the flood for Friday or Saturday. There are more than 50.000 voluntary helpers and soldiers out there at the moment volunteer Fire Departments technical Relief citizens from all over Germany helping to fight against the water or to clean up areas and houses where the water is gone. You can find some pictures on this pages: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/ueberschwemmungen-in-deutschland-tagelanges-hochwasser-gefaehrdet-deiche-1.1687909
http://www.bild.de/news/inland/hochwasser/angst-in-niedersachsen-schleswig-holstein-30721214.bild.html http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4953352/europes-worst-flooding-in-a-decade.html