Thursday, June 23, 2016

Damage from storms Randstad estimated at 20 million – NU.nl

That warning applies to the provinces of North and South Holland and Utrecht. Since last night already fallen much rain, the new showers can therefore provide waterlogging.

Also in the east and southeast it could during the day significantly storms. Locally this flooding, hail and wind gusts possible. KNMI measurement Rotterdam Airport on Thursday already received 47.9 mm of rain, thus breaking the monthly record, reports Weather Plaza.

The total amount of rainfall measured for this month comes at 148.3 mm. Never was there so much rain fell in June. The precipitation measurements began at this location in 1974.

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Strandhuisjes

On the beach in Zeeland Oostkapelle seventy beach houses destroyed by a tornado. There is virtually nothing left of the booths, says the Foundation Strandexploitatie Fern, who rents the cottages. It can also be seen on photos Omroep Zeeland published.

Employees are busy informing tenants. The Foundation rents 3,500 homes. All of which are built up again in April and May.



Floods

Plumbers have their hands full in the Randstad. “They have very busy with leaks, flooded basements and toilets where the water bubbles up,” said a spokesman for industry association Uneto-VNI. Also many gardens under water because they are tiled.

“Now the KNMI predicts that we have this kind of weather will often get in the future, individuals may themselves take steps to flooding and to prevent the house “said Uneto-VNI. So people have their gutters and downspouts cleaning and must be pieces of green in their garden so that rain water can sink into the ground

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Traffic

Because of the heavy rains and thunderstorms in the west and center of the country Thursday morning was a lot of water on the highways right. The morning rush was not busier than usual.

Around 6:30 was it already fixed about 100 kilometers, but at 09.30 there was 126 kilometers of traffic jam and that’s according to the Traffic Department “normal morning rush” . There is almost no accidents because people adapt their driving style to the weather.

The railway reported no disturbances still on the track. They recommend that travelers have to travel well to keep an eye

Video:. Severe weather causes a lot of inconvenience in The Hague

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Notifications

the thunderstorms tonight also caused problems in the west of the country. Then around 2:00 pm broke the storm, the fire quickly got dozens of reports of flooding and lightning, especially on the islands of South Holland and around Rotterdam and The Hague.

The Hague are also most received reports of flooding, according to figures from Alarmeringen.nl. Last night there are received at least 69 reports. There may be more reports received by the fire service. At peak periods stop the fire with the transmission of messages and they go straight to the next location.

Also in Rotterdam (47 notifications), Bussum (16) and Amsterdam (13), many reported incidents of flooding . The security region Rotterdam-Rijnmond was the busiest with 90 reports

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fall wind

the heavy rain this morning has caused a huge fall wind damage in Breukelen. Dozens of trees were blown down or broken by the wind. There are also trees blown up houses.

In a fall wind poured cold air from a storm with tremendous speed down, so there may be very heavy winds on the ground, reports Weather Plaza

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By:. ANP / NU.nl

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