UPDATE! Germany & Belgium, EU: More than 60 people have died and dozens have been reported missing as severe flash flooding in Belgium and Germany turned streams and streets into raging torrents.

TO THE RESCUE: This man used a sledgehammer to smash through a wall and save a woman trapped in a flooded building in Belgium.

Barrie, Canada: At least eight people have been injured, four seriously, after a tornado ripped through a Barrie neighbourhood on Thursday afternoon, uprooting trees, destroying homes, and flipping over at least one vehicle.Environment Canada first issued a tornado warning for all of Central Ontario at 2:38 p.m., warning residents in Innisfil, New Tecumseth, Angus, Orillia, Lagoon City, Washago, Barrie, Collingwood and Hillsdale to “take cover immediately” if threatening weather approaches. But within minutes the possible tornado had touched down in the Barrie area and there were widespread reports of damage. Steven Flisfeder, who is a meteorologist with Environment Canada, said that the weather agency did issue a severe thunderstorm for the area earlier in the day that warned that the conditions were favourable for the development of a tornado but he said that by the time it became clear that a tornado was actually forming there was unfortunately “very little time” to warn residents.