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weekdays, on d, w. the memories are still vivid on may 29th, 2016 disaster struck the village of pounds. bah! and south western germany. oh, the cut us off herself. i literally watched the floss a wave of debris heading towards me. did you float when it made a noise? while i should go, i couldn't figure out what it was exactly. then i realized how to show the whole house was shaking. policy pass, mayor hung cash film, the catastrophe unfolding in front of him. i said, who are the ones in it's in st. completely insane? before you know, the emergency services can't do anything. it's not impossible right now. out of the

question my god say pounds bottle via financial kill. i was in shock. i couldn't even begin to process what i was saying. i know. although no lives were lost, the flood left the village devastated with its voice horrible. i'm speechless of the robot. both never seen anything like it. a few years later, germany suffering the effects of a different kind of extreme weather. in 20182019 temperatures rose above 40 degrees celsius in the summer, with no rain for months on end rivers dried up. a disaster for the local environment and its inhabitants. yacht and last year there was no rain for here in the region for more than 70 day hine. and then in summer 2021. the. our valley in western germany was hit by flash flooding. let's as you looked at and all

of a sudden we were confronted with issues that we'd always thought only affected somewhere else in the world of places like bangladesh, dramatic, whether fluctuations have become commonplace. what does the future hold, and what do we need to do to cope with climate change? ah ah. we begin our research in vintage park in the home secretion. an idyllic spot at the foot of the stone via forest on june 5th $22015.00 weeks before the flooding in the eye valley. a summer storm wreaked havoc here. the picturesque

village was overwhelmed and yoga bow man's home was among the many destroyed. he and his wife, marianna, will never forget that day a traumatic experience that etched in their memory. the basement was completely flooded. the couple had only just finished renovating their home and now had to start all over again from scratch. they own a heating installation business, so at least they could do a lot of the work themselves at near the olive on the fathers commercial poor. we just got everything finished in here marked mid 5 or 6 years ago with fitted the house out with external thermal insulation for energy efficiency and switched from fossil fuels to an air to water heat pump inside. yet we done the garden too,

and we're actually looking forward to concentrating on other things. agnes, i'm loaded that make her wanted. i love them. that when it wasn't to be after hours of torrential rainfall over the local forest hills, the village was hit by a deluge em. i quickly learned doesn't come. i can't get the image is out of my hand is i often look at the photos we took. it really got to me shoved ah, marian bomb and still can't believe what happened. the rhine and the more so often burst their banks. that villages that are nowhere near major rivers shouldn't be at risk of flooding. local simply weren't prepared. the bellman still haven't gotten over the experience. bush answered them to host and i was terrified that the front door would break and the water would rush in. from upstairs, we could see the pressure building. we could see the door starting to give way. if a market was in,

was guns for the water was up to here, years was the go through and high yard was under water. here oliver was watched on winter book as situated in a valley in the hunts like mountains. the village is nestled in the stone by a forest, the source of the water that caused such damage. forests landscapes, how fast water storage capacity soaking up heavy rainfall like a sponge. but in recent years, this has no longer been happening as efficiently as it used to van had pound batter is in charge of the local forestry service. he and his colleague michael fake are going to show us what the problem is. with the flooding inventor book and other religious down in the

valley is linked to the state of the forest. it's increasingly try here where they're digging. even the beach trees are showing signs of drought damage and beaches aren't usually very sensitive. it actually rained a lot in the summer of 2021. but how much rain did the ground actually absorb? it soon transpires not much at all. yes, you can see its own dry. well, it has trout to become a long term problem. it both shifted the hut and he and derrick yawn in late last year. there was no rainfall here in the region for more than 70 days in the garage . can there cost alone area? it didn't rain for over a $100.00 days. yes. by the 1st of august 2021,

there was still a deficit of over 250 liters per square meter meter. hard to imagine, we're given the years over all weather. but it goes to show how severe the lack of rainfall has been in the last 3 years. gosh, last if it's either in dixon yarn in ellipse and that i on ninety's vaughn as hard that explains there needs to be 2 months, a steady rain fall day and night to make up for the drought of recent years. he also says that the forest needs to be managed differently in the past water used to be trained from the forest these days he and his team are laying pipes and taking trenches in his own fight in order to replenish the watershed and retained the water that collects on the logging roads the aim is to ensure it seeps into the ground across the forest instead of flying into the valley and

causing the waterways there to post their bank live. uh yeah, hm. josefina bishop, all he am the one vote back loy for de la. there are lots of streams here in the soon vas idol, the elbow and the griffin bark. and it was striking how quickly their water level was rose in just a short space of time. here in the soon vase just when it rained a massive amount of water collected in a concentrated area, jackwoods, it was pretty frightening. laugh in his own boat. wonder good positives as far was the song being seemed. when the storm head, the forest couldn't absorb the torrential rain. the logging roads were crippled and had to be rebuilt. now deeper trenches and larger pipes have been put in place to reroute heavy rainfalls to points in the forest where cans heap into the ground. yet i should damn, it does bid these up flush bits, inflation couldn't. what that does is avert excessive ronald be and allow

groundwater to replenish lungs. i'm on the water is distributed slowly and steadily across the forest floor. i where it's absorbed, who causes in terms of the local ecosystem. it means there's enough water to sustain the forest as a natural resource, again, leaving squalid head between for us as lemons, from florida to fulfill it, than had found better planning to upgrade the whole forest. this way, it's a small but significant way of helping to reduce the effects of extreme weather. the next up on our research trip is in northern germany. every year hamburrow coast, the extreme weather congress. it brings together weather and climate researchers as well as environmental activists. the event aimed to reach as many people as possible in the process, raising awareness of climate change and the need to act an urgent priority. not

only for metrology, span praga, but also politicians and the likes of mo, she play chief, one of germany's leading climate researchers. the 2021 congress was overshadowed by the events in the us valley. can. if we need chain mission, the choice isn't between more or less climate protection, but between proper radical, sustainable climate protection and climate disaster. that's where we're at. dam friday for future. the others fridays for future, i think. and in 2019, there was more discussion of the climate in the environment than there's ever been before. but in 2019 that same year before the pandemic hair toys, we also took more cruises and more flights than ever before. that there's a huge cognitive dissonance going on with and if we really want to get anywhere, then we need to have the courage to change tub. these are the gets in the the experts attending the event. none of those drought and flooding will become

increasingly common of the islands i to in these a talk. my father would be with us yet by paul's master lawrence in. on the one hand, there are protracted dry spells, as we saw in 2018, 2019, and 2021. and these weren't balanced out. and there's always been the occasional dry year. but the but 3 in a row is conspicuous religous or done. and on the other hand of game, we can expect to see increasingly frequent storms and heavy rainfall. i'm so very slow moving storms and flash flooding from back. in general, the weather is becoming more extreme, but that's the bottom line of august you helped influence. while we were at the congress, we heard about an ambitious research project looking at extreme weather in this way, be in mountains. 10 german research institutes are pulling their resources, including cloud and precipitation radars and lasers in order to explore the complex processes that occur in the atmosphere. basic scientific research that allows them

to better protect extreme weather events and their consequences. these scientists are waiting for stormy weather. this may be an alps or germany's main storm hotspot and storms are a key aspect of extreme weather. professor merrick once is a meteorologist with as of yet, laza drama was i. we're going to blow up a balloon, so we'll be ready if a storm starts to breathe in gentlemen. we've already set up the probes. so now we're going to load the balloons in the car, 6 or 7 of them fix it, and then we'll drive right into the stall. the balloons are filled with helium, they'll carry small probes into the clouds and will enable the scientists to observe. hale formation occurring during the storm. hill is a typical feature of extreme weather. the team are excited. the clouds are

gathering after hours of waiting. they now need to act fast before they head into the storm. mere quince visits the lab to check the clouds activity. which direction are they drifting in and is the upwind or convection strong enough to carry the probes into the storm clouds? with on like towards the like, you saw doctor does when he go home. convection and shows a powerful lift off when the rain foam said falls more or less vertical to the points where the up wind is. basically it suppresses the up wednesday. so, and that means that the standard lifetime of a single cell is on average, 30 minutes to an hour. it destroys itself as it was out of scope with dental. that makes it all the more important to release the balloons in the right place at the

right time. outside the storm cell is getting stronger. it's time for the scientists to launch their balloons. right here. positioned inside cuts the probe's measure temperature and air pressure, as the balloons drift upwards through the storm. precisely where hail storms are forming inside the clouds. mckerick once can follow the action in real time. figure we've got a signal. are we going to use 3 balloons? because the rains got worse and we hope they'll take off. yeah, i've got a signal off. we go one lord on stop. have lisa and the probes are inside the clouds taking the pulse of the storm as it were

. yesterday of what i thought, argument life i fortunately, we're not in the middle of the storms out there of 5 centimeter hailstones coming down from the middle and then give our cars are good bashing on the top with from here me here. constant as team can collect a wealth of useful data, there will help predict extreme weather events. we're planning to visit him in his lab and cast. we're in a few weeks time back inventor book. the bowman's are still dealing with the flood damage. it's the weekend, but instead of putting their feet up, they're hard at work trying to make their home livable again. juergen bowman is haunted by memories of last july, when a gaping hole suddenly appeared in his yard and thought to form alcohol or wild. if there was a power can't, because all the sockets were under water lorne on,

it was like being on a house boat or as millions of miles or so what exactly happened as i'm rather than out of by i was back of over the well this here is an old stream tunnel and there was so much pressure from underneath that it got pushed up with a self supporting structure. and when it got pushed up, it one stone breaks off and the structure collapses. first girl i film shot on his mobile phone shows the thing called that resulted right in front of his house. i 1st law got employees. i've worked with a hole in the garden, got bigger, and then as solid wood garden bench got pulled into the current god turned in circles order and was washed away by them. that was the point when i said to my husband, does roger okay? have him is now i'm frightened. my father rakish, august flu olive enamel offers one. it all disappeared into the whole of the lavonne of the hall. the chairs are terra cotta. ornaments of it all got washed

away. what happened here was nothing in comparison to the disaster in the our valley actually rambled. there was some damage. it's bad, it's a problem, but at least no one was heart glick. gun lynch was wrong with the r valley floods in july 2021 claimed 133 lives with 700 people left injured and 42000 others also affected. they were among the worst bloods and german history in the space of just a few hours. it rained as much as it usually does. in months. the german meteorological service called it unprecedented insurance companies that it was the most expensive weather related incident in 50 years. was damages totaling an estimated 10000000000 euros

as climate change means that such events are likely to become more frequent. we meet out, but geographers trauma hug and camp. and theresa sch, title and the village of my shop in the, our valley. they are trying to establish the precise water levels that occurred during the flooding. not easy given that many of the watergate us along the our river got swept away. experts rely on them to analyze and predict flood events. give us a standardized warden. what else? the a presidio highest warden have a little from his head. was pianist from one country directly to water levels on the outflow. far exceeded any flooding that happened since records began fivefold human. and you know, we haven't seen water levels like that in recent history. and if you look at the history of the, our valley, india, and you can see that in fact, these extreme events did occur. they were very rare, but not on known. overcome in 18 o 4, there was flooding in the,

our valley. the cost similar damage does obviously on a smaller scale because at that point in the valley was less built up top that was tied on myself. nice little in about bon here in my shows, the storms swept away a number of houses and destroyed the local train line. complete with most bridges, theresa title and thomas logan can from the university of bon, are using a fyodor light, surveying tool to measure maximum flood heights across the valley. it helps them identify precise watcher levels at precise geographical location. with the brown color of this aside shows just how far at the washer road trauma, southern camp has been researching the history of plants in the our valley. for many years. this time, the watcher here with 10 meters higher than its normal level. the skipped

a horse of his equal carbon the flesh they can find a fist of falling in deutschland or, and there are flood risk matters for all of germany's river hub. but clearly they've not been adequate latin vs and feel on the basis of these matters. there are plenty of places where you could reasonably decides put up new buildings. who are these maps don't include historical flows and hope off on the wall to level record and that are available, laid back just 50 or 60 years automotive fulton, that's a short time frame. height, reflect extreme, then it was ice extreme likeness up to bill. please maps has since been updated and now include historical data to but what role did climate change play in the i valley disaster was that the ultimate cause in the pump there, i would argue that this is gale of the flood is not necessarily climate change

related it gets a lot in terms of the frequency. well, if it's in other words, how often such events occur, one large, you could argue, change in weather conditions that mean the floods are now occurring more frequently . and that's a consequence of climate changes. climate change increases the likelihood of such events occurring more frequently as demonstrated by a recent study conducted with the participation of the german meteorological service. yet the question remains. why is why they're becoming more extreme? we meet spend prayer at the weather center of germany's main public broadcaster some 35 forecasts are produced for weather bulletins here every day of our music to a clear gut job includes analyzing maps and figures. not only the t v weatherman has observed that a number of weather phenomena have become increasingly common from the focus until here with must evident that this is the noise here is at 50, not went on oh, okay. are, you know, here got tells us about the standing ways, phenomenon,

high pressure and low pressure. france that don't actually move. it explains the devastating storms and the r valley does, don't buy it and pounds, but it's highly uncommon for high and low pressure. france to be stationary, but it's become a feature of current weather patterns. and if it was seed foot items that move, distribute rain across a wide area, but if they don't move, the impact is concentrated in one place. so there's extremely heavy rainfall conflict. if the high pressure front doesn't move than we have the high temperatures and drought, we saw in 2003 or 2018 implement. at the moment we're seeing more frequent standing waves and also more frequent stationary highs and love was to ease of use. so that's a hypothesis that's being investigated right now in law in scientific times, it's not straightforward. the natural world is always complex,

though i am far according to pick a climate change as exacerbating the frequency of standing waves of air meteorologist and storms researcher mckerick once agrees where meeting him at his research institute from ah, he said at the center dedicated to analyzing natural disasters, he and his team evaluate extreme weather events around the world. they were among the 1st to compile an overview of the scale of the i valley disaster and the damage had cost me. her cons shows us a map of the area based on satellite data and aerial images. he believes society needs to adjust to the prospect a frequent extreme weather events hum in deutschland,

i extreme weather events occur in germany every year or so. there are floods and hail storms, winter storms and vinegar live with them, and we have to live with them, isn't i'm it live. oh, and we have to be aware that they happen and know how to respond this, but we tend to ignore it as is typical in our society and honest we ignore things we don't like and under, but that can be highly distracted for. and then these disasters happened when unfair to services are you know, it doesn't const, anna's colleagues closely monitor the course and the consequences of these disasters. the aim is to figure out what we can learn from them. and in the meantime, to remain vigilant. and with our fall in this, i can, as i understand via for little ones learning, ideally these are events that can and should teach us lessons for the future is as default when floods occur. it's a mistake to say, okay, there's been a flood, it won't happen again that soon it's go,

let's rebuild everything exactly the way it was here in. that's what's happening in the, our valley. it was, but we know now that places that were flooded are highly vulnerable. c, as in, as in a raw fuel. don't legend us as ultra vigorous like ordinance in the the all center piece in this cons i and started to sticks. don't tell us anything. then i guess another flood could happen next year, or it could happen in 200 years time i sank on. but what we do know is that if such an extreme weather event happens, again, casino, then certain spotters, such as in short, on the our river will most certainly be flooded. again, sir, i do wanna run done and consider roughly at me heck, once. and his team have also analyzed the flash flooding and bounce back in 2016. at the time it was the most severe flooding seen in germany for decades. again, the cause was extremely heavy rainfall concentrated in one area. within 30

minutes, the village was torn apart. miraculously no one died that many were left homeless. it also resulted in an unusually vast volume of flotsam and other debris. this point, it's terrible as if you're from speechless because i've never seen anything like it . the reconstruction work still isn't finished. and for locals, the emotional scars have yet to heal may have hung harsh house steer the village through its darkest hour. the road to recovery has been strewn with obstacles and set back. hush has even encountered hostility. it's been a difficult few years. he's written a book about what happened and travels the country, giving talks on the environmental threats, facing villages like pounce back featuring images such as these

is a below busy. so to the images, as so affecting often by inevitably moved people deeply image in our gold. i know it or disability you couldn't reach them the same way with words. recall you images are extremely powerful when the mark i was on the cortisol, we are still dealing with the consequences that the reconstruction work is ongoing job 5 years later in that article we can't do everything at once and it'll take a few more years before we're done system and see that it's a long term processed it a lot. we have to think in terms of decades in his record. mr. has come out a little. we have to think about how to contain flooding hot, how to treat the ground, what to do to protect the places at higher altitude,

where there's heavy rainfall to hear my water sparkling smoke from the villages. main square was completely rebuilt. the mayor wants to show us other reconstruction work such as the new reinforced walls along the village stream. the reconstruction work has cost the village approximately 55000000 euros to date at side the village. there are now massive debris traps along the narrow slope for punk harsh, this is the key element in the protection plan. the huge structure is designed to trap avalanches of debris pouring downstream. right all the thong, who's all for 3050 middle oman? recent dinner is about 50 meters upstream. there's another huge debris trap. so no

progress. what we have to do was was, and it's a long term project to start is try to hold back the water at the source is where the heavy rainfall occurs. so it could be a retention reservoir of this week, which is problematic up there. and it will be better if the water could see into the ground like one song as well. to me, the best solution would be to stop farming practices and plant more trees and can, to improve seepage potential wider. if i, for her business as he goes smoothly cut off on the land, around pounds bar is extensively farmed field boundaries were removed. they could have helped contain watcher and there are fields and fields of corn. another detrimental factor, because the crop tries out the soil as an for talk that are born come even thus on . this would av name, living area, soil can't absorb water and that results in localized flooding. i like to compare

it to a baking cake, dove. imagine taking some flower and pouring milk on his brow. the flour is the dry ground with the milk for heavy rain as it won't. you will be laughed with is flour on the bottom and milk just floating on top. but once you start needing and the bottom, in this case, the flower has been moistened with a little bit of the milk. you can add more milk and it'll soak in better sides and aspect. we'd like to investigate further at the university of trey or researchers are finding out how drought changes. soil. an experiment is underway in the soil science department. the samples being examined to see how well they absorb water. they're born again from in a long shot. they were like a tithe of butter soil acts like a sponge in the landscape, storing water over a long period of time, and then gradually releasing it to plant 3 to its surroundings, to lakes and rivers. extreme and extreme weather brought about by climate change

has consequences along it. off off dry soil cones absorb water at the same rate. instead, water just runs off. it was leading to flooding and bodies of water and also to soil erosion and wouldn't have parked in as it was on the soil. scientists want to demonstrate how long a take the drop of water to seep into various toil samples. first they add a drop of blue colored water to completely dry soil. it takes a while for the trap of blue water to be absorbed. the soil is so try, it's become impermeable. i've got 2 more samples. what have you found out so far? come out of the soil samples are very different. the dryness definitely plays

a big role. that once good soil containing homeless is partially, it takes dave to moist in again a cross check clearly shows that so that isn't completely tried out. can still soak up watcher. but if you're a student, waltney sanders, lilian owens garcia, noise here, yon. when i was a student in the eighty's and ninety's, we didn't see this kind of dry soap soil. it was unimaginable. but that's what we're dealing with now. holmes. the environmental research sense is drop monitor never shows the soil effects of up to 1.8 meters has dried out massively on and the rain for we are experiencing in 2021 is just about managing to replenish the top. so the water supply it needs to be done,

but the sub soil is still parched by the drought of the last 3 years. i got one in one of the talk ny village, and i are try subsoil and flooding. not as contradictory as it sounds, according to the experts. the drought 2018 resulted in reduced harvests and millions of years worth of losses in germany's agricultural sector. rivers dried up, such as the ties them near fryeburg, which close from the black forest industry struggled with a shortage of raw materials and even gas was in short supply. the media was full of doomsday scenarios. yet man, and of man as his course and feel in my opinion, it's a mistake to focus on all the doom and gloom. when the media goes on about the apocalypse and his crisis and that crisis, he agrees if we end up so overwhelmed that we lose all our courage and think there's no point trying to do anything about it. or when in fact there are so many

groundbreaking projects is skipped, though. feel like tom projected groundbreaking projects that prove we're not powerless against extreme weather, such as the lives back organic farm on the done us back color range and highland fights founded by young people. but it relies on water and that's in short supply up here. jeanine harbor works to ensure the soil as as permeable as possible, so long as it can still absorb watcher akin with and extreme rainfall fluctuations . hudson hudson campus, you know, that yawn all stock a whole other in 2014. there was severe flooding hair in the region that caused millions worth of damage for the marshal back stream overflow. it could be the most of the areas around it. all agricultural feels that are compacted and where the water can't see pin easily, and the soil is homeless deficient. moving on, flooding sweeps away the entire top soil and entire villages are hit by mudslide

alpha buffington. the young organic farmers are planning to revitalize their land using a special technique. first, they analyzed local rainfall patterns. up in the blue line on the chart show in which direction the rainfall is likely to flow. jeanine harbor and her colleague have drawn red lines where they plan to dig ditches that will help distribute the watcher across the farmland. this technique is called key line water management of as you can. but they're concerned about the amount of red in their chart, which indicates just how try the region is. ah, they're keen to show us how effective their strategy is against why they're extremes. first, they used to how to take their ditches. before switching 10 excavator

they want to test how the key line water system works. they take their trenches with a slight gradient 1.5 percent to prevent large volumes of water from flowing too fast. i'll have him and explain meant i've had z and we're conducting an experiment to illustrate how the water that a mass is during heavy rainfall. a vendors can be distributed over the area and conceit into the ditches laid according to the queue line system missed. instead of flowing down the slope guaranteed and causing flooding in the valleys and calmed on the to zang funding for them to book our water from the top a graphical depressions where a collections could be diverted to the mound. massage where the ground is dr. office google just doesn't do talking, spin owned jeanine harbor uses the water tank and

a hose to simulate heavy rainfall. come a mark. many flood. obviously rain is less localized, but the experiment shows that the dish absorbs the artificial downpour as planned for the water, then flows along the key line towards the elevation. mm it looks simple, but it's an intelligent way for farming to adjust to the challenges of climate change. but heavy rainfall and drought don't just adversely affect rural regions, but urban areas to villages, towns and cities also. nita just says weather experts fan trigger the problem is not really out dust stuck on implants if must equal to heightened

his own globular. for ziegler problem, of course, is that cities and surrounding areas are very different because cities are built out at the close. daddy show that heat waves in the likes of colona frankfort line, make them 9 degrees hotter than surrounding areas of cities such as cosgra are also likely to see a significant increase in temperature. that's when they suppose is an additional problem that effectively makes the city a completely different climate zone that often. so we need to think about how we can make cities greener and less dry ella, with more greenery, more water cooling by evaporation to curve extreme hate. these extreme hits of ugly to devin urban planners and cas were, are already looking at ways the city can tackle climate change. one of their 1st projects is the redesign of the plaza site. the main station it's set to become much greener, which will not only make it more attractive, but also how protect the city from getting too hot in english didn't get this lands

me for felix was eager to our cities are very built up. that the idea is that instead of being drained off to rivers by leading to flooding, water is retained in the cities of fossa. that's what's called a sponge city present. man. i entered farms that lillian otto as a landscape architect and urban planner. his munich base team was awarded to re design contract construction is about to begin. gabriella mia? it's the targa loved as either among we're experiencing more very hot days or less, but also more heavy rainfall by lunch off. that's problematic enough in the countryside in but it's even more extreme in the cities on the face home. it can get unbearably hot in cities like causal were in the rhine valley and we have to cool down our cities and at the same time, mitigate the heavy rain for which is becoming more frequent and retain the water in

the cities up. some is on the flutter, so it's so high. trees, fountains and miss spray will help cool the plaza father walkways are permeable. water is a key design element. ratliff, near display. we need to use every project to boost water retention in cities for plans, for cooling purposes, explaining we need to convert cities to what's called green and blue infrastructure one. cause who has adopting the sponge 30 concept to meet the climate change challenges of the future. to innovation is essential forest her band had han bagger in the san vite is also looking for creative ways of maximizing watch her retention just like ploy on auto and kassawa his name as to capture, distribute, and use watcher as efficiently as possible. mm. that then tried to buy visa,

my number is that we can load these are from what is crucial is that we make the call function of the forest or the focus of our efforts with user to boost water attention and increase its sponge function v cronin v can now does a shameful to on sty gun. ah, there are grounds for optimism. we just need to adapt to changing weather patterns . that's what ponds back mayor frank harsh tells people as he tours germany, raising awareness of flash blood was fever. this morning. we need action and improvement across the board. french windows, he said, i do believe that can walk through but a lot needs to happen before people like yoga and marianna ballman are safe from the threat of flooding. and the villages of been top walk pounced. bah and elsewhere, after a lot of hard work,

the couple have almost finished rebuilding their home. yes, finally, we're making progress and will soon be done with the under floor heating has just been installed. now the $1000000.00 question. where will the couch go to? not mine, are you asking me or my wife will leave that to them to figure out now, but the couple did agree on tiling the floor tiles are more water resistant. just in case ah. a small island with big plans now who noon in the indian ocean. the french overseas department is making a complete transition to renewable energy. it's set to be completed by

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