Dramatic weather in Denmark

The dramatic weather that will hit much of the country on Friday and Saturday has sent government agencies and private homeowners working overtime. The Danish Emergency Management Agency, municipalities and homeowners were busy on Thursday preparing for flooding, storms, big waves and a lot of rain. Mobile dams and sandbags have been driven out to homeowners.
     “With the current forecasts we are looking into, I would strongly encourage citizens in the affected areas to secure their houses with sandbags,” Lars Evald Jensen, Head of Property and Traffic in Assens Municipality, said in a press release on Thursday. The elevated water level will affect the southern Little Belt, the South Funen Archipelago, the coasts of Lolland-Falster and Southeast Zealand. On Thursday, DMI revised the warning upwards with a report that the water level may reach up to 2.4 meters above normal water level in the southern part of the Little Belt. /ritzau/DMI/