Last Updated: Jun 9, 2013 9:14 PM ET
Thousands of people (click here) have been evacuated from their homes in a region of eastern Germany where the Elbe river has flooded and burst through a dam, officials said Sunday.
At least 21 flood-related deaths have been reported in central Europe, as rivers such as the Danube, the Elbe and the Vlatava have overflowed after a week of heavy rains and caused extensive damage in central and southern Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary.
The latest fatality was an 80-year-old man who died of a heart attack in Austria on Sunday while cleaning up debris caused by flooding, the German news agency dpa reported.
In Magdeburg, the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt in eastern Germany, more than 23,000 residents had to leave their homes Sunday afternoon after many streets and buildings were flooded and electricity was shut off, dpa said....
Was the 80 year old man allowed to live? I mean he is just a calculated loss, right? I mean the petroleum industry needs to have every right to destroy the land in the USA and pump their junk out of the ground after destroying water supplies and causing seisemic activity. So, I ask you was the 80 year old man allowed to live? Yes or no. Was his life ever valued ENOUGH?
