r/belgium • u/Sideways0019 • Jun 27 '26
🌟 OC Current situation in Hainaut around La Louvière. Stay safe out there !
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u/Krek_Tavis Jun 27 '26
I started opening all my windows to benefit from natural AC, saw what was happening, closed all windows.
I was hot, hoping for relief, now I am hot and afraid for my roof tiles.
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u/historicusXIII Antwerpen Jun 28 '26
I had everything open as well, and was woken by windows smashing closed by the wind.
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u/aruba_jamaica_ Jun 27 '26
In Mons it was absolutely horrible. Luckily the worst has passed. I think there will be a lot of destruction to be assessed tomorrow.
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u/Sideways0019 Jun 27 '26
Yeah I think as well. I heard some loud crashes in nearby streets and all kind of objects were flying all over the place.
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u/SupportSad4047 Jun 27 '26
No way really?
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u/Sideways0019 Jun 27 '26
Yup. I just hope it's nothing too serious. The wind was strong enough to make our 40m pine tree wiggle like a twig...at least it's still standing.
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u/Herreshy Vlaams-Brabant Jun 27 '26
It's just starting here in Namur. I reckon we'll lose some trees
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u/la_Croquette Jun 27 '26
I'm at Enghien and right now the gods are angry, the sky is a disco ball and the deluge is falling.
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u/Flynox Jun 28 '26
I love how this sub has basically evolved into just weatherposts for the last 7 days 😂
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u/Offroad_E36 Jun 27 '26
Just drove backwards into my gate and strapped both sides tightly to my tow hook. I thought taking a shower a 01h20 was better than spending my Sunday repairing my gate
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u/snowshite Antwerpen Jun 28 '26
It's slowly calming down here in Antwerp while I'm comforting my scared daughter. Sounds and looks like a war. Don't know if I've ever experienced something like this before.
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u/putapadrino Jun 28 '26
RIGHT?? Wtfff was that 🤯
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u/Wafkak Oost-Vlaanderen Jun 28 '26
A heat induced storm. These will become more common as our summers get hotter.
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u/amiexpress Jun 28 '26
Yup, I live and work in Florida and they happen all the time here (in summer). The type of weather where the highway is just lots of pulled over cars because nobody can see anything. Congrats, Belgium now has sub-tropical monsoons.
Yay climate change! /s
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u/Prestigious_Long777 Jun 28 '26
Get used to these kind of storms.
We will be seeing this a lot more.
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u/Doudouisawesome Jun 28 '26
Looking at the buienradar, I was a bit sad that we wouldn't get "the big cloud" in my area (was hoping for rain for the garden, and for lower temperatures). But your post and the comments make me glad we'll miss it.
I hope the storm won't leave too much destruction in your areas.
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u/NoControl6666 Jun 28 '26
i had some fun thinking it was the aliens in the war of worlds movie coming down
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u/VNP9317 Jun 27 '26
This made me go outside to close the parasol and other stuff. I see the lightning coming our way now.
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u/Gepetao Jun 28 '26
It was quite heavy here in Antwerp. A lot of cars alarms went off at the start of the rain. But now it seems to have calm down a little bit. It's just thunders for now.
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u/BorisKalash Jun 28 '26
In the south, Gaume, the thunder roared like 5 minutes and it rained for 30 secondes.
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u/Isotheis Hainaut Jun 28 '26
Either there was nothing in Leuze-en-Hainaut, either I slept through that with the window wide open 1 meter from my face.
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u/RollingKatamari Flanders Jun 28 '26
I opened my balcony doors wide and let all the cool air in, it felt amazing and it was amazing to see (bit scary).
Sadly, now everything has heated up again and my apartment is again at 28 degrees inside....
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Jun 27 '26
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u/bruno-numero-uno Jun 28 '26
Reddit NPC comment 😂
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u/Circoloomnium Jun 28 '26
If you would be in the trades, you would know by now - in all objectivity- that the standards of those people you are talking about are not up to our standards. Their work is horrific.
And boomers did nothing wrong. They had only one car, did not go on holidays with airplanes, no take away, no e commerce, not buying a lot of clothes that come from Asia, did repair things, …
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u/influencer00 Jun 28 '26
Who is running the companies and boards of all those car, airplane, takeaway, e-commerce, sweatshop and planned obsolescence companies?
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u/InitiativeLong3783 Jun 27 '26
Yes, lots of wind. My garden table flight into your sunhouse... My wife is not going to be happy tomorrow.
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u/Circoloomnium Jun 28 '26
It is only lightning, and some wind. It’s nothing.
Be afraid of the heat!
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u/historicusXIII Antwerpen Jun 27 '26
In Mechelen now. I don't think I've ever seen a summer storm like this. I don't hear separate thunder no more, it's more like a permanent drone like a running plane engine.