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Schuld Mayor Helmut Lussi views on the predictability of floods, both on the long-term scale and the immediate scale of being able to provide immediate warnings, are completely wrong, and may go to show one of the difficulties in communicating risk to people or municipal officials who fundamentally don't understand environmental risk, people should also bear in mind that while flood warnings can't stop a flood, they can help people move themselves, and their possessions, to safety.