Former alderman Gert Vos van Hoogeveen was yesterday in the middle of a devastating storm that raged over Corsica. He was evacuated from his campsite a day after his arrival on the French island in the Mediterranean. A sports hall was forced to become his temporary holiday home.
Vos compares it with the downburst of 14 June 2007 in Hoogeveen. An enormously powerful and violent natural phenomenon that hit the South Drenthe place at the time. Some fifteen years later and more than 1,500 kilometers away, he is once again impressed by the power of nature.
“We knew something was coming”, Vos had already been warned. “But when it happens, it surprises you anyway. We woke up to the sound of thunder, but when it got closer I heard nothing but roar. Like six or eight F-16s constantly flying overhead. You can see treetops going back and forth. , the sky is greenish-yellow: a very powerful natural phenomenon,” he describes the event. Among other things, a wind gust of 224 kilometers per hour was measured.
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