More adventures in water today! Woke up to a cold house with part of the electricity gone. Isolated the faulty circuit, situation stable so we went for our planned (dry!) day trip.
Came back to dark and cold house, fidgeted a lot to isolate two faulty circuits (on two separate boards). Back to heating, light and stove top.
Water levels down a little bit, but not in our basement 😬
View from Bruges, not the misbehaving Dender!
#overstroming #dender #wateroverlast #floods
It’s hard to hear people say we should move or that we chose this ourselves. Some of this situation is the result of decades of mismanagement and incorrect understanding of how water behaves; some of it the result of changing weather patterns (aka climate change). Some people built here without knowing or understanding the risks.
In short: stuff is complex, people are emotional, and water is pretty, you can’t do without, and it’s dangerous.
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There is already a ton of critique building on the delays with refurbishing the locks and weirs on the Dender.
We’re also have an abnormal amount of rain on oversaturated soil, flooding is to be expected.
And we live in the area where in the 50s-60s people came ice skating, these were the natural holding basins and flood plains of the river. Building came with risks, risks that intensified as the rain patterns changed.
Rtbf Non officiel
Dr. Tineke D'Haeseleer
Philip Dutré