Code Orange: flooded streets and great hailstones – De Gelderlander

Heavy rain and thunderstorms on Monday for a lot of inconvenience caused in large parts of the Netherlands. Especially in Gelderland and Overijssel was a lot of flooding. The theater was evacuated in Zevenaar. In the Veluwe was heaps of rain. And with some hail was talk of hailstones of up to two centimeters.

The KNMI increased at the end of the afternoon the weather warning for the east and center of the country code yellow to code orange. That happened in the provinces of Utrecht, Gelderland, Overijssel, Noord-Brabant, Limburg, Drenthe and Groningen. For the rest of the Netherlands remained code weathered yellow

Code Orange means. Be prepared. It is after code red, the highest weather alert KNMI. The code orange tonight was around quarter to ten ceased.

Gelderland
The heaviest showers were located both in the afternoon and in the evening in the eastern provinces. Especially in Drenthe, Overijssel, Gelderland and the eastern part of North Brabant was much rain in a short time. Thus man had had to be taken from his car by firemen in the Brabant Cuijk. Sometimes hailstorms were accompanied by huge hailstones.

Also in England the fire department got busy by the storm. On the Veluwe the showers according to Weather Plaza caused a one-hour time even almost 50 millimeters of rain. Normally there is 65 millimeters in the month.

Zevenaar roads are under water. The theater was evacuated, according to Omroep Gelderland because the roof threatens to collapse under the weight of the water. A supermarket was under water.

The safety calls people only to call in emergency and danger to life 112. When water damage people must report to the insurer.

Also in North Limburg and Brabant streets were flooded and basements were under water. In Amersfoort, the police closed the park Randenbroek temporarily off because of thunderstorms.

In the course of the evening took off again the heavy rain.

Night Four Days canceled
Several sites were earlier today evening Four Days canceled due with the (future) self-defense.

include Utrecht, Ermelo, Soest, Harderwijk, Veenendaal, Harmelen, Leusden, Didam and Zutphen the walking tour was canceled.

Flights canceled
Schiphol also suffered from the weather. Dozens of flights were canceled today or suffered from delays due to the low clouds, combined with work on the Zwanenburg runway.

This afternoon, it was expected that this number would increase further by the strong storms that are coming.

Germany
The bad weather came on Germany to the Netherlands. Southwestern Germany Sunday was hit by heavy rain, which at least four people were killed. Underneath a thirteen year old girl. They took shelter in a tunnel for rain in the hard-hit German state of Baden-Württemberg and was caught by a train.

More than forty people were saved by rescue workers from dangerous situations, more than 520 people were brought to safety . One of the killed was a firefighter in Schwabisch Gmund who was trying to rescue someone from a sudden get water.