Belgium Floods

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(15 Sep 1998) T/I: 10:47:17 • • • The heaviest rainfall in decades has caused Belgian rivers to burst their banks flooding villages, highways and railroads throughout the country. The Meuse and other rivers in eastern Belgium rose to critical levels on Tuesday (15/9) after two days of incessant rain that caused flooding across the country. • • SHOWS: • • 15/9, BRABANT, BELGIUM • Various shots of flooded fields; • Traffic in flooded streets; • People in flooded garage, and firemen activity and carrying • sandbags; • Interior flooded homes; • Road fenced off; • More flooded streets; • Firemen with sandbags; • Overflowing rivers and homes flooded; • Car partly submerged in water; • City street and people wading through floods; • People in small boat paddling along flooded street; • Sick person carried on stretcher down steps and into ambulance; • Tracking shot through flooded streets; • People in flooded garage; • Smoking electricity box; • Tracking shot of flooded houses; • • 2.49 • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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