Etiket: Flood
Accept that things will flood again? ‘Look at the Swiss, they are 25 years ahead’
Accept that Limburg falls prey to a devastating flood once every few years? Nonsense, says professor of forest and nature danger Luuk Dorren. Look at the Swiss, he says. They…
Cabinet does not think apologies for flood disaster necessary | Politics
The cabinet does not consider it necessary to apologize to the victims of the flood disaster. At the time, people had been warning for decades that the Dutch dikes were…
Robin de Puy shows how the flood disaster lives on in the memories of the survivors
Portraits from the book WATERS by Robin de Puy and Maria Barnas.Figurine Robin de Puy “It’s very strange, but on the day of the Disaster we overslept,” says 81-year-old Annie…
8 dead in Ostend: flood of 70 years ago also affected our coast
8 dead in Ostend: flood of 70 years ago also affected our coast The flood of 1953 was the worst natural disaster of the 20th century in both the Netherlands…
Six widows and fifteen children were left behind after the Texel flood disaster
The victims of the flood disaster on February 1 were commemorated on Wednesday at the monument on the dike of De Eendrachtspolder. It was exactly 70 years ago that six…
Sump or drown: are we in for a new flood disaster?
70 years ago, the flood disaster, the largest natural disaster to hit the Netherlands in the 20th century, took place. From now on, the Delta Plan had to protect the…
Dirk (94) finally sees his ‘flood baby’ again after 70 years: “Now I can rest”
It worked! Dirk Marees from Den Oever has finally found his ‘baby’; the child he saved during the 1953 flood disaster. He never got to see the child at the…
Drenthe aid after flood disaster: pigs, workers with shovel and tens of thousands of guilders
Because there was a great willingness to do something for the southwest of the Netherlands, the Red Cross decided to draw up a list of goods that could be put…
Equities New York: Significant recovery before Fed interest rate decision and after flood of figures
indexes in this article NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – The US stock markets recovered significantly on Tuesday after a weak start to the week. Investors not only had to classify a…
There is still a chance of finding missing persons Flood disaster: ‘Time is really running out’ | Interior
podcastNameless victims of the flood disaster can still be identified. For this it is necessary that more relatives of missing persons still donate DNA. “Time is really running out now,”…