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00:00 As southern Europe burns, the north is submerged.
00:04 Since late Sunday, Scandinavian nations have been in the grips of a low-pressure meteorological
00:09 system dubbed Storm Hans.
00:12 Heavy rains have battered Denmark, Sweden and Norway, causing severe traffic disruptions
00:16 and flooding across the countries.
00:18 "There is a car park located next to a riverbed, so the cars have started to be taken by the
00:26 masses of water that draw in here.
00:28 Now we're working on getting the cars out of the water and limiting the damage."
00:34 On Monday, two wagons of a passenger train derailed in eastern Sweden after a railway
00:39 embankment collapsed due to heavy rains, leaving three people injured.
00:44 In neighbouring Norway, the rains triggered several landslides in the south-east on Tuesday,
00:49 with local media reporting over 100 people had been evacuated as a result.
00:54 Meanwhile, Denmark's Meteorological Institute reported strong winds, waves of up to eight
00:59 metres high and beach houses swept away into the North Sea.
01:03 "It's insane.
01:05 I've never seen anything like this in my 18 years here.
01:09 Houses with a whole wall missing, furniture on the road down here, all over the place
01:14 and completely ruined.
01:16 It hurts in the soul somehow.
01:18 Things we love are just gone."
01:20 Swedish and Norwegian meteorologists have issued red weather alerts for the next several
01:29 days.
01:30 They warned that the hardest-hit places could receive of up to a month or more's worth of
01:34 rain in 24 hours.
01:37 This could result in the worst floods to hit Norway in 25 years, or 50 years for Sweden.