2023-08-25 09:46:00
Jean-Luc Meurice, mayor of Jodoigne: “We are in the wheat harvest period and I had to send a team of workers to the villages to unclog the drains filled with straw residues. Some places are more affected than others, like the Chaussée de Hannut, but the sky should clear up during the day”.
Fire captain Daniel Demeester also had to intervene with his team. “Priority in Ottignies, he says, until around 9 a.m., then in the east of the province, because we also had requests for interventions on Hélécine, Jodoigne and Orp-Jauche. Most of the time, it’s for flooded cellars, but also for trees that have fallen on houses during a storm.”
Significant flooding was also observed Friday morning at the height of the southern ring of Nivelles and an intervention vehicle was drowned, we learned from the local police.
The firefighters in the Walloon Brabant rescue zone are overwhelmed due to numerous missions to be carried out after the bad weather that occurred on Friday morning in their area of intervention.
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Lightning struck the parking lot of the central police station in Nivelles, preventing staff from working there.
Due to flooding, a portion of the southern Nivelles ring road (R24) was closed to traffic between the Fontaine-l’Évêque roundabout and the police station. A police vehicle was drowned by the rising waters.
The pond in Parc de la Dodaine has emerged from its bed.
Several roads are flooded at rue Longue Bouteille, in the Faubourg de Charleroi and in the Dodaine district.
Since 10 a.m., rail traffic has also been interrupted between Luttre and Nivelles, on the Charleroi-Brussels line. The tracks are flooded and the water has disrupted the signaling system. The rail network manager Infrabel is not yet able to give forecasts on the restoration of traffic.
On the Nivelles bypass, the situation was complicated:
The SPW warns of possible runoff:
“Concerning the risk of runoff: the undulating and unstable nature of the disturbance means that the exact position of the storm cells and the value of the expected accumulations are difficult to predict. Locally, in the most sensitive areas (impermeable areas, along the axes runoff concentration and small streams), and under the most active cells, it is possible that water damage by runoff and/or saturation of the sewage network may occur. of larger water: there is no risk given the current low levels and the local nature of the forecast precipitation.
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