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Flood Causes Enormous Devastation, but It Cannot Be Called a Disaster

Summary by Omroep Brabant
Thousands of houses were destroyed, large numbers of cows and other domestic animals died, and many thousands of people sought refuge when the dikes around the Meuse River breached in 1926. The Cuijk region was flooded, as were large areas in Gelderland and Utrecht. But Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn refused to call it a disaster. By the end of 1925, heavy rain had been falling for weeks in Brabant and the surrounding area, and the effects were…
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Thousands of houses were destroyed, large numbers of cows and other domestic animals died, and many thousands of people sought refuge when the dikes around the Meuse River breached in 1926. The Cuijk region was flooded, as were large areas in Gelderland and Utrecht. But Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn refused to call it a disaster. By the end of 1925, heavy rain had been falling for weeks in Brabant and the surrounding area, and the effects were…

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Omroep Brabant broke the news in on Saturday, January 10, 2026.
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