Text 12680, 73 rader
Skriven 2008-03-13 17:11:18 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 12577 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: Bush Vetoes Waterboarding Bill
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13 Mar 08 08:55, Ward Dossche wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> WD> As a side-note ... the Dutch don't have a problem with building
 RW>> a
 RW>> WD> living below sea-level.

 RW>> They don't suffer hurricanes either.

 WD> Why complain about hurricanes?

Because hurricane wind potentially can reach 180mph...

 WD> Every year the Dutch have the autumn and winter storms to contend
 WD> with. Extreme high-water tides combined with north westerly storms
 WD> have caused thousands of deaths throughout history.

Never the less, those storms don't come anywhere near hurricane levels.

 WD> Quite well documented is the St.Elisabethflooding of 1421 with a
 WD> couple of thousand casualties:

 WD>       http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint-Elisabethsvloed_(1421)

 WD> Another major flooding occured in 1570, which we know as the All
 WD> Saints flooding (Nov.1st). Complete villages vanished and the land
 WD> changed very well shown in this photo of a flooded, and eventually
 WD> abandoned, area:

 WD>       http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afbeelding:Saeftingen.jpg

 WD> The Netherlands has had major floodings in these years:

 WD> 838 - 1014 - 1134 - 1163 - 1164 - 1170 - 1196 - 1212 - 1214 - 1219 -
 WD> 1248 1277 - 1280 - 1282 - 1287 - 1288 - 1322 - 1334 - 1362 - 1375 -
 WD> 1377 - 1404 1421 - 1424 - 1468 - 1477 - 1509 - 1514 - 1530 - 1532 -
 WD> 1552 - 1570 - 1675 1682 - 1686 - 1703 - 1717 - 1820 - 1825 - 1906 -
 WD> 1922 - 1916 - 1953 - 2006

None by hurricane.

 WD> The last lethal one was in 1953 (Jan.31/Feb.1) when 1.836 people
 WD> perished, 72.000 were evacuated and 175.000 hectares flooded.

 WD> As a result the Delta Plan was developed with major infrastructure
 WD> works to prevent the inland from flooding during such storms.

 WD> In general now the dikes in the Netherlands are well maintained and
 WD> there are contengency plans. When a few years ago there was again a
 WD> flooding-alert, more inland, evacuation of people, property, animals
 WD> and security within the region was of the highest standard.

 WD> You think a hurricane is bad?

I think they're worse than any Nor'wester...

 WD> Well, you've obviously never experienced an Atlantic Northwest storm.

Nor have you, by the sound of it, ever experienced a hurricane.

 WD> If the houses and structures in the Netherlands would be built as
 WD> light as in hurricane-prone territories, they would equally be blown
 WD> away. The difference however with hurricane-country is that these
 WD> houses here would be blown away every year.

If they ever experienced a hurricane.

                R\%/itt



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