After one of the hottest summers on record, Europe is now coping with an historically wet autumn.
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00:00 After two weeks of sustained rainfall, parts of northern France remain underwater.
00:05 Towns and villages across the Pas-de-Calais department are only now seeing the extensive
00:10 flooding begin to recede.
00:13 Several thousand residents still have no access to clean drinking water and hundreds of homes
00:19 are without electricity.
00:22 It's a similar situation in parts of Belgium, particularly Flanders.
00:26 Farmers are among the worst affected by the lingering floods.
00:30 Saturated soil means flood water stays on the surface.
00:35 Pumps that normally reduce excess rainwater in Copenhagen were overwhelmed and major roads
00:41 were submerged.
00:43 After one of the hottest summers on record, Europe is now coping with a historically wet
00:48 autumn.
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