Poly has left very little of beach bar Bad Zuid in Egmond aan Zee. Yet Andries and Carmen were ready early this morning to get things back in order. Fortunately, they could count on a lot of helping hands from the area.
“We’re going to hose them down, we’re going to flatten them and we’re going to put them up again,” shouts Andries, owner of beach bar Bad Zuid, while he is busy digging out his terrace on the beach of Egmond. “We do everything with brute force,” he laughs. “That’s for the best.”
Not a single table of the beach bar in Egmond aan Zee was spared yesterday by storm Poly. The summer storm blew them all over and shook the tent itself. Carmen runs Bad Zuid together with Andries and was in the tent during the storm. “I found it very scary,” she says. “Everything was clapping and raging here.”
Whole have and hew
In the peak of the storm, she asked herself why she had come to the tent. “But I really wanted to support Andries,” she explains. “It’s all your having and hewing.”
Andries also squeezed him a lot during Poly. He could only watch as the storm attacked his beloved beach bar. “The damage just kept coming,” he recalls. “Just fuck off again, I thought.”
Get started together
Together with the Egmonders, they are now working hard to get Bad Zuid back to top form as soon as possible. With excavators and shovels they try to get all the sand out of the beach tent.
“It’s still really chaotic,” Carmen emphasizes as she prepares coffee for all the helping hands. “But we are very happy that everyone is coming to help us. Then it should be okay again.”