“Damage caused by bad weather in southeast is certainly half a billion euros – NU.nl

Such a step increases the potential to help the affected farmers, they think.

“What happened here last week, it can certainly be labeled to disaster,” said LLTB chairman Leon Faassen. “And it is not over yet because it is still raining. Many entrepreneurs need help to save their business, otherwise they literally ducking.”

Just in Someren, near Eindhoven, the costs incurred by farmers and gardeners estimated at half a billion euros.

hail balls

Extreme storms with hail stones the size of tennis balls made late last week for a wave of destruction in the region, if the whole month is facing flooding. Many stables and greenhouses in Someren is almost no roof part more completely.

“It is becoming more known what the consequences are. How many businesses, cars and homes have been affected. So we come to that amount” confirmed, local president Henriette Driessen peasant organization ZLTO Monday after news of the Eindhoven Dagblad .

ZLTO estimated the damage across North Brabant previously at least 100 million euros.

in agricultural insurance, according to the Association of insurers now gotten to claims made about 130 million of farmers, particularly from Limburg and North

Brabant. In this first estimate of the umbrella organization for private damage are not included

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Crisis Talk

Monday finds in Someren a crisis meeting between farmers, insurance companies and the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

the problem is that a large proportion of all damage is probably not covered by insurance. Therefore, farmers want the government also bought a share. Driessen ZLTO fears that possible multiple companies will go bankrupt without financial assistance from The Hague

Video:. Lots of damage in south by storm

By: Reuters