VIDEO: Haersmahiem Buitenpost assesses the water injury

Omrop Fryslân

Tuesday Might 21, 2024

BUITENPOST – Haersmahiem residential care heart has recovered considerably from the shock, writes Omrop Fryslân. The bottom ground needed to be evacuated on Monday as a result of native downpour that fell at Buitenpost. At one level there was 30 centimeters of water in lots of locations in Buitenpost. 22 residents of Haersmahiem are housed elsewhere within the constructing. “After all of the hustle and bustle, thankfully it’s now quiet,” says Jan Maarten Nuijens van Haersmahiem, of the board of administrators of healthcare group Kwadrant. “The shoppers all had night time, so I feel everybody has recovered from final night time’s shock.”

The water that was visibly on the ground is now gone. “However there may be water injury. Water does creep into locations the place you don’t need it. We’re having every part measured by the insurer right this moment to see how intensive the injury actually is.”

Outpost from the air

No casualties

Then comes the large cleansing. “However an important factor for us is that there have been no casualties final night time and everybody was capable of return to their condominium. Luckily it ended nicely.” Nuijens himself was not there. “However I used to be instructed that there was an enormous cloudburst with heavy hail. That could not go away, so it piled up within the sewer and got here out by the bathrooms and drains. It flowed into the constructing, which should have been actually horrible to see.”

Evacuation

“Fortunately we had been in time to get folks out of their rooms,” says Nuijens. “There was no excessive water in our assembly room, so we had been capable of take the individuals who needed to be evacuated there. Everybody reacts in a different way to it, however ultimately everyone seems to be satisfied of the necessity to depart their very own condominium.” It was a really busy day for the workers. “You possibly can think about that in case you are strolling round there as a weekend workers and suppose: boy, what’s coming at us right here? That was fairly a shock for them and the residents.”

“Coronary heart warming”

There was plenty of help, greater than fifty folks helped. “That’s fantastic to see. Very spontaneously, folks from the village got here to our location to take away the water with all their would possibly. Then you definitely see how fantastically the group responds and the way they roll up their sleeves. That’s heart-warming.”

Writer: Editorial RTV NOF

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