Publication Date:
Thu, 2012-01-05 16:15
Some 85 people in the village of Tolbert (160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Amsterdam are being asked to leave their farms voluntarily as a storm batters the region.
A month’s worth of rain has soaked the northern Netherlands in recent days and a northwesterly wind is hampering efforts to pump the water out of polders — reclaimed land that is drained by pumps and mills.
Water authorities further north said early Thursday the situation there was under control after they pumped millions of gallons of water into the sea, lowering water levels in drainage canals that crisscross the country.
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