REPORTING. This East Flemish village was the epicenter of Flanders today: “Sandbags? I need a goddamn submersible pump!”

Everywhere in Flanders, streets are flooded and houses are flooded, but nowhere was the need as great as in Zandbergen. Our reporter went to the Dender Valley, where he saw a lot of sadness, but also heart-warming solidarity. He even saw ex-partners come together again to fight the water. “Here in the house, water was bubbling up from the toilet onto the floor. I was completely powerless.”

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