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Sweden’s weather agency issued a severe weather warning for the extreme rains and flooding in southern Sweden, adding that the rains are likely to continue all wee
- Flooded homes evacuated
- Home guard called in to help
- 15 centimetres of rain in past two days
- Rain predicted to continue all week
- Emergency workers say floods have reached “catastrophic levels”
Magnus Eriksson of the emergency services described as “extremely serious” the flooding in the small south-western town of Getinge. “This has seriously affected the entire town,” he told news agency TT.
The SMHI weather agency issued a class 3 warning – the most severe on its three-level scale – early on Tuesday afternoon.
It added that the rain would not subside until “early next week”.
The home guard was called in to build a water barrier using sandbags, and several streets were flooded, leaving cars and belongings under water.
Several homes were flooded too.
Emergency services, who said the floods had reached a “catastrophic level“, began evacuating nursing homes without power in the afternoon. About 700 households remain without electricity. Three preschools in the town have been closed due to flooding in the hallways.
SMHI added that it expected up to 35 millimetres of rain in the next 24 hours, and additional rain storms over the next few days.
“There is a tremendous amount of water,” the news agency’s reporter Anders Andersson said at the scene. “The creek running through Getinge is completely flooded, you can’t even see the riverbed. I imagine the water has flooded more than one hundred metres outside its usual path.”
Getinge is a town in southern Halland near the west coast of Sweden. It has a population of around 2,000 people.
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Yamkin – there’s a typo at the end of the first paragraph…should be ‘week’ 😁
week it is then !!!!!
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