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I love to see how the people in the non-flooded parts of Belgium are already scrambling for donating and collecting clothing, food, blankets, pet food and stuff, sleeping bags, medicine, hygiene products, batteries and chargers, etc.

I hate to see how the majority of local governments fail to organize it. In my town alone there are already two truck drivers offering their services and several volunteers for collecting but they need a central collecting point where the stuff can be donated, organized in packages, picked up etc. All the surrounding town councils are death quiet even though the major political parties were all on the news yesterday with their fancy new bridge. The people are screaming, you just gotta listen! How hard can it be!

It is not recommended to drive to the area yourself. It is dangerous and chaotic and you could disrupt emergency services. The main focus right now is on immediate needs (like I listed above) not on furniture. Anyway, IF there ever comes a map with collection points in I will share it here...dont get your hopes up.

Dissapointed but not surprised😔how hard could it be?🤔

#like if we have so many governements we could at least use them for sth #I understand that the federal and regional govs are busy with immediatw emergency service #but if every less/non affected town or intercommunal co-op could focus on relief aid for an affected area that would be amazing #but the enthusiasm of the citizens warms my heart #just shows that all those socalled north south differences are indeed political fabrications #flood #belgium #belgique #belgien #wallonia #extreme weather #Meuse river #inundations #climate change

Bridge over Meuse River, showing damage left by Germans in their retreat, 11/13/1918

Series: Photographs of American Military Activities, ca. 1918 - ca. 1981. Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985.

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