On Saturday, the southern Belgian town of Dinan suffered its worst flooding in decades. A two-hour thunderstorm turned its streets into torrential rain, washed away cars and sidewalks, but did not cause any deaths.
Dinant survived the deadly flood 10 days ago, which killed 37 people in southeastern Belgium and many more in Germany, but the violence of Saturday’s storm surprised many people.
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“I have lived in Dinant for 57 years, and I have never seen anything like this,” Richard Fournaux, the former mayor of the Meuse Riverside town and the birthplace of 19th-century saxophone inventor Adolf Sachs (Richard Fournaux) Say. On social media.
The rain gushed from the steep streets, washed away dozens of cars, piled them at an intersection, washed away cobblestones, sidewalks and the entire apron. Residents watched in horror from the windows.
According to a report by the Belgian TV station RTL, there was no accurate estimate of the loss, and the town authorities only predicted that it would be “significant.”
The storm caused similar damage in Anhee, a small town a few kilometers north of Dinant, with no casualties.
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