Imagine a flood sweeping away everything you own.
They have no home, no bed, no kitchen.
Even people close to you may have died.
60 years ago today, a severe storm surge hit Hamburg: 315 people lost their lives.
Also because the sea is 120 kilometers away, many had considered the danger improbable.
How is the coast protected today?
We accompany the top coastguard of Schleswig-Holstein.
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And talk to the second mayor of Hamburg, Katharina Fegebank: what the city has learned from the disaster - and how it is preparing for climate change.
After all, catastrophes have always existed, but they are likely to increase significantly in the coming decades.
Sea levels are rising and researchers agree that storm surges will also be more severe.
The historian Martina Hessler believes that we have forgotten how to deal with catastrophes.
She sees striking parallels between the Hamburg storm surge and that in the Ahr valley last year.
I'll talk to her about that.
How the 2021 flood changed the life of a small family in Ahrweiler and how they are still struggling to find normality more than half a year after the disaster, that is what FAZ editor Tobias Schrörs, who has been with them since then, tells.
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