BRABANT FIGHTS AGAINST WATER Sorry, your browser doesn't support Java(tm).

 

 

The first people got an advise to leave their houses. This regards the people in Itteren en Borgharen. In total, 3600 people have got an advise to leave their houses.

Rijkswaterstaat [..] does not know how high the water will reach. There are reports that say the water will come higher than 46 meters above the N.A.P (N.A.P. is a changing certain height of water determined in Amsterdam in order to measure the water height of rivers and lakes. A level of 0 meters above N.A.P. is considered to be the ground level.

The gusto under the habitants of Limburg to leave their houses is not great. 

There are more rivers that cannot handle the water, just like the river Amblevé .The Amblevé was at first a slow and quiet river, but during the flood the river turned into a savage river. The speed of the stream in Amblevé is higher than the speed of a vehicle. The river Amblevé ends in the river Ourthe which ends in the Maas.

So the Maas had to handle the water of other rivers too.

And that was too much...

 

People had to be evacuate by a shovel

The inhabitants of Arcen are working on a emergency dike

Next day.