Nearly ten million damage after heavy rains – Parool.nl

Nearly ten million damage after heavy rains – Parool.nl

29-07-14 10:51 PM – Source: Parool

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Floating in the River © Ruben Steeman

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The heavy rain that parts of the Netherlands yesterday blank turn, according to a rough estimate of the Association of Insurers almost ten million delivered damage

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camping in Amsterdam © Reuters

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It is mainly about the damage to private homes. Car damage and damage to companies and the agricultural sector are not yet included in this estimate.

During the cloudbursts, which led to massive inconvenience and ask for help, got the Amsterdam fire department assistance of the volunteer fire department in Diemen, Duivendrecht and Amstelveen. At least thirty fire tore about a hundred times to help people. The fire tore at one point only if threatened short circuit.

There are yesterday, as far as the police could report this morning, no injuries.

With so much water on Amsterdam’s streets and squares, including tramways and the A10, and in basements and viaducts caused some major inconvenience. Others had a blast. Thus children bobbing around on air beds.

Rush hour Van Gogh
Around two o’clock yesterday afternoon at the Van Gogh Museum Paulus Potter Street South was so crowded that the museum visitors through social media called later in afternoon to come. “Because the flood was due to bad weather, and the line was huge in that pouring rain became much too long,” said a spokesman for the museum.

Yesterday was not only in almost the entire country – only the Groningen sat in the sun – especially bad weather, thunderstorms, hail, torrential rain and squalls. Also in other parts of Western Europe was the bad weather and was the great inconvenience. Highways and tunnels were closed and rail and air traffic were temporarily shut down or were delayed.

With sandbags, buckets, locks vacuum trucks fought against everything that huge amounts of rainwater. Alphen aan den Rijn fell within 24 hours more rain than normal in a month. That hit a inner-so saturated that it had to be reinforced with sandbags.

Ground in the country are still running at full speed to get the water and sluices stand as it opens to discharge water. Equally at sea The next few days will be expected to be sunny, with temperatures around 24 degrees Celsius

. (By: Loes Fauwe)