“I have nothing left, everything is gone,” says Lut Ramaekers from Hasselt, who still cannot fully understand how a lightning strike turned her home into a sea of fire in no time on Saturday. She had left for the sea that evening, but is now trying to save some things together with her children. “The rubble from the chimney has completely sunk in,” says Lut, who tells her story on the other side of a ribbon marked ‘asbestos’.

