2024-01-04 07:26:00
In recent days, the weather has been wreaking havoc in Belgium, causing numerous floods and triggering violent winds. Wavre-Notre-Dame and Putte, in the province of Antwerp, were not spared from the bad weather. Indeed, it is an impressive phenomenon which has swept the area, as reported by Het Laatste Nieuws. A tornado passed through both cities around 4:40 p.m. It damaged around forty houses in its path, some of which had their roofs torn off. Two houses were declared uninhabitable.
Rue du Moulin, in Wavre-Sainte-Catherine, was also made inaccessible following the fall of a roof, blocking the access road from Putte. Other streets are also blocked while waiting for municipal services to clear debris obstructing traffic. According to Ronny Cornelis, from the Rivierenland rescue zone, the material damage spread over a distance of two to three kilometers, as VRT Nieuws writes.
The spectacle was indeed disconcerting: flying trampolines, mobile homes thrown into the air, roofs blown away, nothing was spared. “Everything happened so fast. I thought I was going to die,” one resident explained to the Flemish media Het Nieuwsblad. She also reports how her friend, who wanted to protect her horses from the tornado, was injured. “She wanted to close the stable door when she suddenly received a brick or piece of debris on her hand. We’re going to take x-rays to be sure, but we don’t think his wrist is broken.”
However, no injuries have been reported since the tornado struck.
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