Water in the Netherlands–past, present, and future
Thursday, August 21, 2014 - 06:30
in Earth & Climate
The storm in the Netherlands began on a Saturday afternoon in February 1953. Ria Geluk, who was 6 years old, told me that it peaked during the night when nationwide communications were on their nightly pause. The radio broadcast turned off at midnight, and by the time it resumed at 8 a.m. the next morning dykes had broken in 80 places and entire neighborhoods had gone immediately under water.