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Sheep special: German sheep farmer constantly under high alert for flood warnings

Urgent flood warnings have long been a part of everyday life for farmer and coastal engineer Nommen Kruse as well as his father before him

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These alerts, prompting emergency action to round up sheep to higher ground or emergency housing, are received some 40 times per year by Mr Kruse who lives with his wife and young children on Hallig Nordstrandischmoor,...

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