Worst is yet to come with floods in Netherlands, Germany and Norway

euronews (in English)

The water levels in the Rhine, which flows through sections of Germany and the Netherlands, caused severe flooding. The situation is expected to worsen by Thursday.

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00:00 [WATER FLOWING]

00:04 Water levels in the River Rhine have caused severe floods

00:07 in parts of the Netherlands and Germany.

00:09 Forecasts say the peak of the flooding in the Netherlands

00:12 will take place tomorrow.

00:14 In some parts of the country, temporary dikes

00:17 have already been built to control the flooding.

00:20 Farmers in the Netherlands have warned

00:22 the poor weather conditions may affect the potato and sugar

00:25 beet harvest.

00:26 In neighboring Germany, several storms in quick succession

00:30 have meant heavy rains on an already soaked ground.

00:33 Near Bremen, the River Wiese has burst its banks.

00:36 Some homes and farms on the edge of the suburbs

00:39 have been flooded.

00:40 In Norway, many cities are on high alert,

00:43 as heavy snowfall has meant the roads are extremely

00:46 slippery and dangerous, causing several traffic accidents

00:50 and injuries.

00:51 Storm Henk is forecast to hit southern Scandinavia

00:54 on Sunday morning.

00:56 (whooshing)

00:59 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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