One month after huge storms battered northwestern Europe and forced an unprecedented wave of floodwater through densely populated valleys, Belgian residents are still in shock
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Municipal crews and contractors are shoring up river banks and railway embankments and the heavy trucks clearing tangled waste queue along the narrow roads. Gangs of volunteers have given up summer holidays to help out. Monique Roland, 79, was waiting to sign off on the sale of her third floor appartment, but the lower floors of the block are ruined, her heating is off and rebuilding work will take months.
He was overwhelmed by the sympathy of the volunteers who stopped by to help him clear up, and treasures the photos he took with groups from across the country."I wasn't particularly frightened the day afterwards, but now we're 30 days later. The aftershock came after a few days, and it's mainly tiredness," he said, showing reporters around his home. "I sleep for an hour, then I wake.
Volunteers organised by social services in the town of Soignies, 100 kilometres away, are washing out the main hall, and a crew from a fellow free school in Flanders is digging mud out of a classroom.
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