At least 81 people have died in the severe weather that hit West Germany.

In Müsch, a small village in Rhineland-Palatinate, the level of the rivers has fallen, and the inhabitants are now seeing the extent of the damage. 

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In Germany, while the floods that ravaged the west of the country killed at least 81 people, several villages remained cut off from the world on Friday, as in North Rhine-Westphalia, but also in Rhineland-Palatinate, where Europe 1 was able to go to the village of Müsch.

On the spot, the inhabitants are shocked by the violence of the bad weather and the extent of the damage caused.  

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In this village of 250 inhabitants, the streets have turned into mudslides. The ground is strewn with rubble from destroyed houses, tree branches, bits of furniture. Thursday, the tractor ballet lasted all day and will resume on Friday morning. Michael, in his rubber boots, still can't believe it. "It looks like World War II. The waters went up so high, people said they had never seen this in 100 years. In the garage, the water was up to my chest," he describes. 

The village, located between two rivers, found itself trapped.

All means of communication have been cut off.

"No water, no electricity. We can't contact our family. We can't call anyone because we no longer have internet on our phones," says Michael.

"We are like on a small island from which we can no longer leave."

"I didn't sleep, I was scared"

Michael's neighbor, 66, has no news of her daughter who lives a few kilometers away.

Dazed, she waits on a garden chair in front of what remains of her house.

"I didn't sleep, I was scared. I was alone here, and downstairs, the cars were swimming ... The water was so high that I was completely stuck upstairs," says she does.

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The level of the rivers has now come down, but this sixty-year-old cannot help watching, anxious, the slightest cloud, hoping that the nightmare is over.