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Because of the heavy rainfall on Saturday night, a part of the pageant grounds of Dominator in Eersel are underneath water. Pictures on social media present an enormous puddle of water in entrance of one of many phases. The tenting grounds are additionally fully flooded.

Saturday night, code yellow was introduced by the KNMI. Heavy rain showers with robust gusts of wind have been anticipated in some locations in Brabant. Indicators have been positioned on the pageant grounds warning of this.

A number of hours later, it was certainly pouring down. Guests share movies on social media of the stormy circumstances on the location. It can be seen that dozens of tents have been flooded.

Dominator is likely one of the largest hardcore festivals on the planet. From Australia to Chile, from Scotland to Russia and from Italy to Norway, lovers of the laborious music type come to Brabant for the pageant. The pageant lasts two days and Saturday is the final day.

The routes of the Nijmegen 4 Days Marches on Friday will probably be shortened by 10 kilometers per route because of the warmth, the group introduced. Which means that a big a part of the route in Brabant will probably be cancelled for a lot of walkers. Solely the army will stroll your complete route.

Temperatures of round 30 levels are predicted for Friday in Nijmegen. Walkers who would usually stroll 50 kilometers will due to this fact observe the 40 kilometer route on Friday. The contributors of the 40 kilometer stroll 30 kilometers (this route solely runs via Gelderland) and the 30 kilometer route turns into 20 kilometers, additionally solely in Gelderland.

Contributors are usually not allowed to deviate from their new route, the group introduced. “The previous route will probably be cancelled. Which means that in the event you stroll exterior your route, you deviate from the rules and meaning disqualification. In fact, that is additionally primarily for the security of the contributors themselves.” Energetic enforcement will probably be carried out on Friday.

The day of Cuijk
The fourth day of the Nijmegen 4 Days Marches can also be referred to as ‘the day of Cuijk’. In Cuijk, the walkers who stroll the forty kilometers cross the pontoon bridge within the Maas, which was specifically constructed for the 4 Days Marches. By way of Beers, the route heads again in the direction of Gelderland.

The walkers who stroll 50 kilometers will stroll the biggest half on Brabant territory on Friday. They may also soak up Heihoek, Gassel and Grave. Solely the army will stroll this 50 kilometer route on Friday. For this group, the one requirement is to stroll with not less than 10 kilos of baggage. The beginning occasions won’t change.

“The measures to be taken give the walkers the chance to take additional relaxation alongside the best way or to complete on time,” says march chief Henny Sackers. The group advises contributors to eat and drink sufficient alongside the best way.

Shortening the route of the 4 Days Marches has occurred earlier than. Prior to now, there have been a number of deaths when it was very popular throughout the 4 Days Marches. In 2006, the 4 Days Marches had been cancelled after someday, when two individuals died and a whole bunch fainted within the warmth. The 4 Days Marches in 2022 will probably be shortened by someday as a result of it was very popular.

The Bospop competition closed all parking heaps on Saturday morning. In Weert, a lot rain fell that the terrain is impassable. 22 tractors have been busy all night time pulling vehicles out of the mud. Guests can now park in Maarheeze.

The competition group calls on guests to come back by public transport or to be dropped off on the Kiss ‘n Journey. The director tells L1 to be shocked by the 40 millimeters that fell on Friday. “That was really not predicted.”

For individuals who nonetheless need to come by automotive, Bospop has made a paved car parking zone out there in Maarheeze. Shuttle buses will take guests from the car parking zone on the Philipsweg to the competition website. The group understands ‘that it is a disappointment’. The shuttle buses will run from ten within the morning till two at night time.

In line with Bospop, the competition grounds, the campsites and the car parking zone have been carefully monitored in current weeks. The place needed, measures had been taken towards the flooding. ‘Though every little thing appeared good, the rainfall yesterday morning has sadly meant that we can’t use our parking heaps’.

Emergency
Bospop attracts tens of hundreds of tourists annually. On the programme on Saturday are Racoon and James Blunt. Final 12 months, the final day of the competition, Sunday, was cancelled as a consequence of dangerous climate.

On the website in Oisterwijk the place the Intents Competition will probably be held subsequent weekend, everyone seems to be working onerous to get the fields as dry as potential. And to maintain. “We now have flooding because of the heavy rain. Luckily, the pageant website is in good situation. The tenting websites are the issue: one meadow is best than the opposite,” says Jochem Liebregts, spokesperson for the pageant.

At least forty milliliters of rainwater fell on the poorer tenting website throughout the evening from Friday to Saturday. “The water additionally drains much less rapidly at that website. Generally there’s extra rain than different instances. We now have already obtained a whole lot of messages from involved pageant guests in regards to the tenting websites.”

The location in Oisterwijk is at the moment working with all its would possibly. “Further ditches are being dug and the water is pumped from the prevailing ditches. A tractor is used to attract trenches on the tenting website in order that the water can movement by quicker,” Jochem explains.

By drawing trenches, the water drains away quicker (photograph: Competition Intents).

In instances of want you get to know your mates. “A neighborhood resident has made a chunk of a better meadow accessible for the pageant. We’re very pleased with that. We will additionally accommodate our tenting company there.” About twenty thousand guests use the campsite at Intents Competition.

The group of the pageant has positioned a press release with measures on its web site. “Sadly, get together tents will not be allowed to be arrange, as a result of everybody places their very own tent round them, which takes up an excessive amount of area. We would like each customer to pitch their tent on piece of floor.”

“One pageant tent has a raised flooring, in order that guests don’t get moist ft.”

The pageant’s ten levels are positioned on a greater a part of the location. “We additionally fully lined the pageant website with picket floorboards and street plates. We had an issue with one tent as a result of the water didn’t soak into the bottom as rapidly. We put in a raised flooring there, in order that pageant guests don’t get moist ft in any case.”

The pageant website is roofed with picket slabs (photograph: Competition Intents).

The run-up to the pageant, which attracts seventy thousand guests yearly, goes easily this yr. “It is a massive setback. We have been working in direction of this for a complete yr. We at all times have good climate in June. Even the climate apps all say one thing completely different now,” Liebregts notes.