Storm Eunice hit the Netherlands on Friday and left havoc throughout the country. This is also the case in Limburg, where several roofs and trees lost the battle to the wind. After 9 p.m. the wind force subsided. Rijkswaterstaat expects plenty of traffic disruption on Saturday.
Wind speeds above 140 kilometers per hour have been measured. Eunice thus grew into the ‘severe storm’ category.
Kill
Eunice mainly struck the Dutch coastal provinces and the north. Code red was in effect for these regions for a long time. Code orange had been announced for the rest of the country, with the only exception of Limburg, which had to take code yellow into account. As far as is known, four people were killed in the storm. It involved two motorists, a cyclist and a walker. Three of them in the Amsterdam-Amstelland region and a fourth in Adorp in Groningen.
Roofs and trees
Although the wind force was significantly less with us, storm Eunice managed to break off parts of roofs in several places. For example, the roof of a canteen in Vaesberg came down. That was also a hit in Roermond: there a house lost part of the roofing felt.
car window
Not only roofs were affected by storm Eunice. In Kerkrade, for example, a roof tile fell on a car window, which shattered as a result.
Shed
In Meijel a shed fell apart due to storm Eunice. The fire brigade has removed the loose plates to prevent them from being caught by the wind and causing damage.
Tree blocks
Several trees also died prematurely on Friday. In Maastricht, Weert and Panningen, for example, branches broke off or even entire trees were uprooted by the storm.
In the Tulpenstraat in Maastricht, the fire brigade went to work on Friday to clean up the storm damage.
Also read: Live blog about storm Eunice