٠٠:٠٣:٣٩Hotel staff in Ahrweiler described the damage caused by the deadly floods which hit the area earlier in the week, as filmed on Friday.
"I work here in a hotel that was 1.50 meters under water. The whole restaurant has been destroyed, the whole kitchen has been destroyed. All of the cellars, heating systems, everything is gone. And here we are located about 200 meters from the Ahr. So it's a long distance, and it's uphill. And nobody imagined it to be of such gravity. Not in our worst nightmares," said one hotel worker, adding that the disaster was 'worse than war'.
"To rebuild all of this? A lot of time. I think for the private people and for the restaurants, like we are, maybe one year but for the whole city maybe ten years. Ten years is realistic. Five or six bridges are destroyed so we can't get to the other side. We have to drive around," said another hotel worker.
Parts of western Germany were hit by the deadliest floods in decades with more than 180 people killed and hundreds missing.
The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg were also affected.
Germany: 'Worse than war' - Ahrweiler hotel workers describe impact of deadly floods
Hotel staff in Ahrweiler described the damage caused by the deadly floods which hit the area earlier in the week, as filmed on Friday.
"I work here in a hotel that was 1.50 meters under water. The whole restaurant has been destroyed, the whole kitchen has been destroyed. All of the cellars, heating systems, everything is gone. And here we are located about 200 meters from the Ahr. So it's a long distance, and it's uphill. And nobody imagined it to be of such gravity. Not in our worst nightmares," said one hotel worker, adding that the disaster was 'worse than war'.
"To rebuild all of this? A lot of time. I think for the private people and for the restaurants, like we are, maybe one year but for the whole city maybe ten years. Ten years is realistic. Five or six bridges are destroyed so we can't get to the other side. We have to drive around," said another hotel worker.
Parts of western Germany were hit by the deadliest floods in decades with more than 180 people killed and hundreds missing.
The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg were also affected.
Hotel staff in Ahrweiler described the damage caused by the deadly floods which hit the area earlier in the week, as filmed on Friday.
"I work here in a hotel that was 1.50 meters under water. The whole restaurant has been destroyed, the whole kitchen has been destroyed. All of the cellars, heating systems, everything is gone. And here we are located about 200 meters from the Ahr. So it's a long distance, and it's uphill. And nobody imagined it to be of such gravity. Not in our worst nightmares," said one hotel worker, adding that the disaster was 'worse than war'.
"To rebuild all of this? A lot of time. I think for the private people and for the restaurants, like we are, maybe one year but for the whole city maybe ten years. Ten years is realistic. Five or six bridges are destroyed so we can't get to the other side. We have to drive around," said another hotel worker.
Parts of western Germany were hit by the deadliest floods in decades with more than 180 people killed and hundreds missing.
The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg were also affected.