In Assen and Almere were both festivals set to start at 12:00. It now happened a few hours later.
Liberation in Assen started at 16:30. The festival site was vacated earlier reports RTV Drenthe . From Drenthe came reports about violent thunderstorm with hail as big as ping-pong balls.
The Liberation Festival in Almere on the Esplanade, next to open water, going five hours later (19:00) than planned because of the expected wind gusts. Throughout the afternoon, including Partysquad and Handsome Poets, has lapsed. The evening performances by Caro Emerald, Kensington and Trijntje Oosterhuis do go on.
At Haarlem was the liberation around 14.00 temporarily closed. “Every half hour we assess the situation,” the organization reported on the website. The program is restarted again at 15:15
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Code yellow
The KNMI for the whole country code promulgated yellow for hazardous weather. The first heavy showers with thunderstorms roamed 11.30 Zealand within said Weather Plaza. It is locally in a short time a lot of rain and hail can occur locally heavy gusts of up to 90 kilometers per hour
Meanwhile, the storm quickly pulls over.; heavy showers are only active in the northeast and east of the country.
But it is around the country a lot cooler, the temperature is between 13 and 17 degrees. However, it remains still hard blow. Along the coast can occur with heavy force 7 winds
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Injured
Roermond is a woman injured during a liberation. She was around 13.00 on the Kloosterwandplein hit by a roof of a stall, which was going to fly because of the wind. The woman was brought to a head injury by ambulance to the hospital.
Mayor Rianne Donders of Roermond left just before 13:30 that the festival is temporarily shut down.
In Amsterdam decided temporary “Bridge over the River IJ” not build because of the weather. During the planned walk between 14.00 and 16.00 hours, high winds and heavy rain are expected. According to AT5 wants the municipal transport the bridge construction next year.
Defilé Wageningen
The annual bevrijdingsdefilé in Wageningen started half an hour later than planned. Around 16:15 the procession began. took 1,200 veterans at the parade in Wageningen , and several hundred soldiers serving active part . Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven were among the spectators.
Tom Middendorp, Chief of Defence, said bi j the start of the parade that you ” sometimes needs to do more to safety than raising a dike. ” “ Fighting for freedom is vital. Inaction is not an option, you can not look away.”
Because of thunderstorms was the paratroopers dropping in Wageningen not. The liberation concert in Oldenzaal was also canceled due to bad weather. It would be held at the Great Market.
liberation
Prime Minister Mark Rutte Tuesday officially celebrate Liberation Day launched by the igniting the liberation. He did so after the 5 May reading of the Israeli writer David Grossman in Flushing.
The fire was picked up in the night of Monday to Tuesday by athletes in Wageningen and transferred to the Zeeland place.
There are fourteen official Liberation Day festivals around the country, where some 900,000 visitors are expected to take part. Traditionally Liberation concludes with 5 meiconcert in Amsterdam.
Four Ambassadors called Freedom Defense travel by helicopter along the festivals to convey the message of freedom. This year that Jett Rebel, Caro Emerald, Dotan and Main Street. The liberation festivals celebrating this year its 25th edition. At 16.55 were the visitors to the festival five minutes dwell on the theme of freedom.
Free day
This year’s Liberation Day an official day off and giving many the opportunity Dutch celebrate freedom. This year marks the seventy years ago that brought an end to World War II
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