“Right now, money is not the problem,” he said. “A lot of these houses will have to be destroyed.”
Maike Haberkorn, 33, went with her husband, Rouven, 46, a nightclub bouncer, to help friends in Heimersheim, a flooded town up the Ahr River.
“The basement is like a dark mudhole,” she said with a shudder. “To be honest, after this, I wouldn’t want to live there. I would always dream of this and never forget it. I would always feel insecure.”
Dirk Wershofer, 48, covered in mud, came to clean out his parents’ home. His mother is 79 and his …
