Around one and a half weeks after the floods, rains started again in the disaster areas in western Germany.
Evacuations were offered in Rhineland-Palatinate - but the situation was not as aggravated as last week, said the head of the disaster control team, Begona Hermann.
In North Rhine-Westphalia, the German Weather Service (DWD) is not expecting a new storm disaster for this weekend.
In individual areas that have already been damaged by floods, however, problems could arise from Saturday evening.
As Hermann announced in Rhineland-Palatinate, according to the German Meteorological Service, local precipitation in the range of a maximum of 30 to 40 liters per square meter is to be expected during the day;
in places only 10 liters are expected.
From Sunday morning around 6:00 a.m., the weather situation could worsen.
An evacuation offer was therefore made to the communities particularly affected.
In the endangered areas of Schuld, Insul, Dümpelfeld and Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, people should be able to be brought to an emergency accommodation in Leimersdorf by shuttle buses.
"That is what the people decide for themselves," says Hermann.
The situation is not comparable to last week - “but we have a sewage system that is no longer working.” Therefore, the rains would have a different effect than ten days ago.
Because of the weather, the helpers could not work as intensively as before. According to Hermann, this should be used for a concentrated waste removal campaign. The aim is to remove the piles of rubbish piled up on the side of the road as quickly as possible. Because on the one hand they are a source of epidemics, on the other hand they disturb traffic. In addition, the space is needed to be able to flush the sewer system.
Volunteers should leave the Ahr crisis area as quickly as possible due to the difficult circumstances there.
This was announced by the Supervision and Service Directorate (ADD) on Saturday.
The reason she named was the heavy rainfall that weekend, the destroyed infrastructure and the unclear traffic situation.
According to the information, shuttle buses are used to bring the helpers back.
Anyone who had planned to go there as a volunteer should not do so.
It's also raining in the Euskirchen district
Problems could also arise in North Rhine-Westphalia if, for example, large amounts of rain flushed rubbish into the drains and thus clogged them.
There are still mountains of bulky waste on many streets.
The State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection warned the citizens: "Stop working on the waterways when the rain comes." Local heavy rain can occur on waterways that run off through sand or gravel banks, trees and other debris from past storms already impaired, suddenly lead to local flooding.
A first rain front with moderate precipitation had already reached southern parts of North Rhine-Westphalia by noon.
It also rained in the district of Euskirchen and in Eftstadt-Blessem, which was particularly badly damaged by the storm of the century.
The heavy rain last week had washed a deep gullet into the earth in Blessem.
No one is allowed to approach the demolition edge within 100 meters.
Road markings indicate this.
The clean-up work continued on site with many helpers.
On Saturday evening or in the first half of the night on Sunday there could be violent thunderstorms and heavy rain in some areas, said DWD meteorologist Jacqueline Kernn for North Rhine-Westphalia.
Where exactly, however, cannot be predicted with great advance.
In the meantime, emergency services from the Technical Relief Organization (THW) have sometimes received an unfriendly reception during their deployment in West German flood areas. "It goes so far that our helpers are insulted," said the Vice President of the THW, Sabine Lackner, on Saturday in the RTL / ntv "Frühstart". “When they are out and about in emergency vehicles, they are thrown with garbage,” added Lackner. Behind the attacks are mainly lateral thinkers or people from the prepper scene, who pretend to be victims of the flood disaster, as well as some frustrated flood victims.
The Koblenz police were dismayed by the reports.
"If the police learn of such an incident, we will act immediately and with all determination," she wrote on Twitter on Saturday.
At the moment the police in Koblenz could not confirm the descriptions "in any way".
"We ourselves only found out about this alleged incident from the media and checked it immediately with the THW and our police forces," said the police.
The police in North Rhine-Westphalia are also not aware of any incident in this direction, said a spokesman for the state control center on Saturday.
"We have no information on this."
After an ARD charity gala on Friday, another TV donation gala was planned for Saturday evening. Together with the alliance of German aid organizations “Aktion Deutschland Hilft”, the private broadcaster Sat.1 collects money for the victims. Moderator Daniel Boschmann leads through the program and speaks with North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister and Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet as well as with flood victims. TV celebrities like Hella von Sinnen, Verona Pooth, Annemarie and Wayne Carpendale, Jana and Thore Schölermann, Hardy Krüger Jr., Matthias Opdenhövel, Mickie Krause and Kida Khodr Ramadan are on the phone as collectors. Music comes from singers like Nico Santos and Adel Tawil.