2023-06-20 16:48:00
“A dozen interventions by firefighters are underway, both in private homes and on public roads,” informs the mayor of Comines-Warneton Alice Leeuwerck.
“The Boulevard Industriel/rue du Textile sector is flooded and closed to traffic. In rue du Rossignol, the roadway is slippery as the water and mud flow down from the fields. The sluice under the RN58, at the height of the Grand Chemin de Messines is no longer accessible, as is part of the port road.”
An underwater fast-food restaurant in Tournai
In Comines France, the situation is the same since several streets are completely flooded.
In Tournai, at the Bastions, the O’Tacos fast food restaurant is completely under water. A pipe would have broken following the storm which hit the city. This gives impressive images filmed by an Internet user.
“Tuba”, a kind of “mini tornado”, observed near Chièvres
In Chièvres, above the church, we observe the formation of a tuba. A rare but not exceptional phenomenon that can occur under a storm cell (outgrowth) when there is a contrast of air masses and especially a wind shear.
More than 70 L/m² in Comines
As our meteorologist Farid indicated at 5:30 p.m., “it’s starting to get active with 10 liters falling on Ath and it continues to rise from the French border (a few cells are forming south of Mons). The storm has been stationary for quite a long time. in Comines with locally 70 L/m² and local flooding, which 100% justifies the orange alert from the IRM…”.
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Hainaut should be affected a little more this next hour and it continues to rise from Avesnois and Maubeuge
Meteorologist David Dehenauw confirms: “In 6 hours, we have already harvested 71 mm in Comines”.
Our weatherman warns: “Hainaut should be affected a little more this next hour and it continues to rise from Avesnois and Maubeuge”.
214 floods recorded in West Flanders
Firefighters in West Flanders have received numerous reports of flooding after a storm originating in France reached the region. In the town of Wervicq (Hauts-de-France), an entire neighborhood even found itself under water.
“After a heavy downpour passed over the region, firefighters in the Westhoek area, on the coast, recorded 214 reports of flooding,” the firefighters said around 3:30 p.m. An hour later, the number of interventions rose to 40.
Twenty calls were also recorded in the Midwest zone, in the center and west of the province. “It is mainly street flooding. In a short time, a large amount of precipitation has fallen and the sewers cannot absorb it all”, specify the firefighters.
In the south of the province, firefighters in the Fluvia zone received a dozen calls. The region around Menen, in particular, had to evacuate a lot of water in a short time.
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