A man sets up a self-made illuminated sign with a heart and reading, "Thanks" next to a Christmas tree on the terrace of his formerly flooded house right next to the Ahr river in Schuld, a village in the Ahr Valley that got devastated and flooded following heavy rainfalls on July 15, 2021, near Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany December 20, 2021. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay