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Belgians reeling after more heavy flooding rips apart streets, washes away cars

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The town of Dinant, Belgium, was cleaning up on Sunday after its heaviest  floods in decades the previous day turned streets into torrential streams that washed away cars and pavement but did not kill anyone.

The flooding followed a two-hour thunderstorm, which left streets strewn with rubble, wrecked cars and thick mud.

Dinant was spared the deadly floods of 10 days ago that killed 37 people in southeast Belgium and many more in Germany, but the violence of Saturday’s storm surprised many.

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“I have been living in Dinant for 57 years, and I’ve never seen anything like that,” Richard Fournaux, the former mayor of the town on the

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This story was originally published on  CBC News. To read the rest of this news worthy story, please visit https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/europe-flooding-belgium-streets-1.6116595?cmp=rss.

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