Hard-hit Dutch town faces a 400 million euro flood damage bill

“It’s clear we are the hot spot” of the flooding damage in the Netherlands, said one Dutch mayor. 

Wiel de Bie, a 75-year-old stands outside his flooded home in the town of Brommelen, Netherlands (Bram Janssen/AP)

Flooding that raged through a southern Dutch tourist town last week caused around 400 million euros (£345.7 million) in damage to homes and businesses, the town’s mayor has said.

About 700 homes in Valkenburg were so badly damaged that their owners will have to seek temporary accommodation while they are repaired, mayor Daan Prevoo said.