UPDATE! Germany and neighboring countries were evacuating new areas hit or threatened by the region’s worst flooding in decades on Saturday, as the death toll across Europe rose to more than 200 and rescuers were searching for hundreds still missing. Farmland was devastated across the region. More bodies were being recovered from flooded houses or the rubble of buildings and cars crushed by the torrent, meaning that the final death toll is likely to be greater, several German officials said. Entire villages and town districts were evacuated with the help of the armed forces in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, as these countries’ armies joined in the effort to support thousands of rescue workers amid a shortage of helicopters and other hardware. In some cases, rescuers had to wake up residents of endangered areas in the middle of the night and convince them to flee. An entire district of the west German town of Wassenberg was evacuated after flood water caused a local dam to burst overnight between Friday

Chaotic scenes European flooding. 👀

We pray for the people of Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Switzerland at this time following flash flooding over a huge area of Europe. We pray for those who have died.