Throughout the province of East Flanders is there flooding, but at the moment no large-scale evacuations expected. Governor Carina Van Cauter reported this in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday.
The great impact is available according to the latest data Aalst, Denderleeuw, Ninove, Deinze, Sint-Martens-Latem, Ghent, Zulte, Kruisem, Zwalm, Brakel, Oudenaarde, Maarkedal, Geraardsbergen, Erpe-Mere, Lebbeke, Horebeke, Herzele and Haaltert.
Several homes have been impacted, the governor says. The emergency response zones try to limit the impact with pumps and sandbags. The Civil Protection also offers help.
There’s one this morning at 9am new consultation planned within the provincial coordination committee. Then it will be reconsidered whether there is evacuations needed.
In Lembeke, in Meetjesland, a fatality occurred on Tuesday evening. A 59-year-old woman ended up there under a fence that had fallen due to the wind.