Bob, what I read about Mayen is that the town is flooded, and that it’s worse than 2016.
I do not know about Mohr‘s shop.
As bad as it is, obviously they do not have the real bad damages of other regions where houses, blocks and streets have completely gone and several people died.
As far as I know there has never been a flood like this one and I really hope there will never be another!
Chris,
Helmut told me about the Nette River and it must move fast enough to run a dynamo/turbine and power a machine shop.
After WW2 and in 1947 when his father came home from a French POW camp they installed this system in what is now his shop.Helmut was only about 8 years old then and maybe 83 now.It has been a problem over the years for him and now it may have taken him out of the muzzle loader business for good.He told me his father made a machine to rebore engines and used the barrels from four 50 caliber machine guns salvaged from an American B17 that landed in the forest near Mayen and he commented on the quality of the steel they were made from.Guenter Stifter told me that he thought the do it
yourself power source made no sense because electricity had been available for years.
We live in WestVirginia in the Eastern USA and in the Ohio Valley and the Ohio River which is a big one is about 3/4 of a mile North of where I am now sitting as I write this. My home on Monroe Ave is in the large flat part of the valley and was
occupied as a home for the first time in 1906.In 1913 the river came up and water was deep in houses including this one.
Again in 1937 it was even worse and this house has a high water line that intersects the light switch in the front room.
It was THEN that people started demanding something be done to prevent this.The religious faction said "It was the will of God and we learn to live with it" Common sense prevailed and the Corps of Engineers designed and built a fine flood wall that has kept the level part of the city dry since 1943.In 1949 I was 13 and stood on top of the floodwall and spit into river and
that was close.I forrgot to mention we live in Huntington which was the largest city back then in our state.
Thank you for your input on Mayen and the towns harder hit.
Bob Roller
