BRABANT FIGHTS AGAINST WATER
FRIDAY 27 JANUARY
In Limburg is the first evacuation is a fact as the first 3000 people
have to leave their houses for the
The Maas has already reached a high of 5,63 meter above the NAP by Borgharen.
The Maas, by Itteren, is now so high that the people who stayed in Itteren
cannot leave their village because the river floods the access to roads.
Also, other big rivers in Holland have reached giant heights.
The water in the Maas is streaming now three times harder then in Flood of 1993.
The people who stayed in Itteren have now the job to get the road back to get
out of the village.
And that wasn't easy at all. And when they found the way there is a problem because the
way is flood they cant see the because the cant see the wells in the middle of
the way. That is not really the problem but the don't know of
the wells still have a cover. If they don't have, the people are having a change
that they will fall in a well . On the footpath it is saver because on the footpath there
aren't wells but they have to watch where the footpath is ending.

The water has reached a height of 45,53 meter.