The delta works in Zeeland are the result of the 1953 disaster. But the afsluitdijk is way older. Started in 1927, finished in 1933. After the aflsuitdijk was finished, we drained Flevoland.
Actually, it was the srcond time it happened. On November 19, 1421, we had the Saint Elisabeth flood. Same occurrence, 2000 dead, parts of Holland, Zeeland and Flanders were flooded. Ten times more casualties in a population that was at most a fifth of 1953. So in 1421, the disaster was at least FIFTY times worse. Only, they did not have film nor television five centuries ago.
I am Dutch myself but I'm not convinced the Dutch now more about the danger of overflowing and how to stop the water. There are also great works like the Hoover Dam and that is of course not Dutch. They need walls and dams against the water in for example Bangladesh. Engineers al over the world know solutions but everything is etremely expensive.
@@peet4921 In the video they make it look like that, the Dutch are better with engineering water. I'm lesser entousistic than the video. What the Dutch can do is 'nice' but not fantastic and the government spends too much money. They don't seem to know the value and spends it like it is water but they don't know how to stop that.
@@rowlandandros1012 huh ? Then you're not quite informed, while Dutch now-how and ingeneering is being exported all over the world ! Als je iets niet zeker weet of de in-en-outs kent is het misschien beter om je eens te verdiepen in de de materie en de feiten. Heb je later ook wat aan 😉
@@jsb7975 Ja, maar ik zie overal in de wereld ingenieuze waterwerken, zoals dammen bruggen sluizen etcetera, In Japan en China of Amerika. Ik kan mij gewoon niet voorstellen dat al die buitenlandse ingenieurs alles hebben geleerd van de Nederlanders.... Wilt u dan misschien het volkslied erbij,spelen, uitgevoerd door Andre Riool ?
@@rowlandandros1012 oe Volkslied ? Foei. Dus je argumentatie is vooral ingegeven door het 'verplichte moeten' om eventuele trots boven het maaiveld af te maaien ? Heel woke hoor. Bangladesh, China, Afrika, overal zitten ingehuurde Netherlandse ingenieurs. (èn baggeraars) Erg hè. Zo nu ga ik het Belgisch volkslied horen, want ik ben -een geïnteresseerde- Belg.
@@Dutchiesunlocked actually you might have started by mentioning some facts of more historic events and early ingeneering even from the middle-ages, just a few exemples might do (?) Just for a few minites. But I appreciate the short and effective insight you already give in this short video.
@@therealdutchidiot Over 20% of the Netherlands is below sea level and 50% is less than one meter above it. So that means that half of the Netherlands can still be flooded.
The lowest parts are peat. 10 to 20 meters thick. If you throw something on that peat, it will sink. So it has no use to do that. We build everything on 10-20 meter long poles. Buildings, roads and viaducts then sit on the sand below the peat.
@@ronaldderooij1774 You are saying that even though you have an unlimited supply of material to fill in the depressions, it would cost too much money to remove all of the compressible, and loose, material that's already under the areas you'd be raising? Peat is a salable material that would probably pay for its own removal. But if there is nothing but sand below the peat, you guys are really in a bad situation. You should think about moving somewhere else.
@@deezynar The amount of material from the slow flowing rivers is relatively low. and the surface that is under, or less than one meter above sea level is big. And yes, there is a lot of clay and sand near the rivers, but that is far from enough. Our neighbors do not allow enormous erosion of their lands... We do use sand from the North Sea to strengthen our dunes, and the zandmotor is a good example how we use it. It's a big pile a little south of the Hague and we let the sea spread it along the coastline. And we like our country, so we move only during the summer, for three weeks, to more sunny areas.
@@deezynar Moving somewhere else? Why? Every area has it's problems. Flooding, drought, extreme heat, extreme cold, extreme storms, avalanches, earthquakes, political problems, poverty, dangerous animals, landslides, failing economy, war. And I probably still forgot some.
LOL! The Australian coastline extends approximately 34 000 kilometres the Netherlands has a coastline of 450 kilometers. Go build the deltaworks in Australia i guess a few thouand times the entire world economy should do the job :P
The delta works in Zeeland are the result of the 1953 disaster. But the afsluitdijk is way older. Started in 1927, finished in 1933. After the aflsuitdijk was finished, we drained Flevoland.
Actually, it was the srcond time it happened. On November 19, 1421, we had the Saint Elisabeth flood. Same occurrence, 2000 dead, parts of Holland, Zeeland and Flanders were flooded. Ten times more casualties in a population that was at most a fifth of 1953. So in 1421, the disaster was at least FIFTY times worse. Only, they did not have film nor television five centuries ago.
Weer wat geleerd, dank je wel
Hello sir.
Good morning.
This is really great work..
I really inspired of great people of the Netherlands.
This is really great Hard work.
Thank you..
I am Dutch myself but I'm not convinced the Dutch now more about the danger of overflowing and how to stop the water. There are also great works like the Hoover Dam and that is of course not Dutch. They need walls and dams against the water in for example Bangladesh. Engineers al over the world know solutions but everything is etremely expensive.
''I'm not convinced the Dutch now more about the danger of overflowing and how to stop the water. ''
O well, the rest of the planet thinks so.
@@peet4921 In the video they make it look like that, the Dutch are better with engineering water. I'm lesser entousistic than the video. What the Dutch can do is 'nice' but not fantastic and the government spends too much money. They don't seem to know the value and spends it like it is water but they don't know how to stop that.
@@rowlandandros1012 huh ?
Then you're not quite informed, while Dutch now-how and ingeneering
is being exported all over the world !
Als je iets niet zeker weet of de in-en-outs kent
is het misschien beter om je eens te verdiepen in de de materie en de feiten.
Heb je later ook wat aan 😉
@@jsb7975 Ja, maar ik zie overal in de wereld ingenieuze waterwerken, zoals dammen bruggen sluizen etcetera, In Japan en China of Amerika. Ik kan mij gewoon niet voorstellen dat al die buitenlandse ingenieurs alles hebben geleerd van de Nederlanders.... Wilt u dan misschien het volkslied erbij,spelen, uitgevoerd door Andre Riool ?
@@rowlandandros1012 oe
Volkslied ? Foei.
Dus je argumentatie is vooral ingegeven door het 'verplichte moeten' om
eventuele trots boven het maaiveld af te maaien ?
Heel woke hoor.
Bangladesh, China, Afrika, overal zitten ingehuurde Netherlandse
ingenieurs. (èn baggeraars)
Erg hè.
Zo nu ga ik het Belgisch volkslied horen,
want ik ben -een geïnteresseerde- Belg.
I experienced the 1953 flood as a small child.
So did I. I will never forget this Experience. I still have this special Smel in my Nose.
@@Dutchiesunlocked actually you might have started by mentioning some facts of more historic events and early ingeneering even from the middle-ages, just a few exemples might do (?)
Just for a few minites.
But I appreciate the short and effective insight you already give in this short video.
At 5:45 the Schelde is not on the map. It’s passing Antwerp (Belgium) which is just outside the map on the bottom side.
There are also no dams.
And with drought they keep the deltaworks open. This year lots of fish died lacking water causing ammonia. They are that stupid.
Maybe you should check your numbers. It isn't 2/3 of the country that is under threat.
Starting off strong but wrong. The Netherlands isn't 2/3 below sea level. Never was. The actual number is around 25%.
But more then 25% is still in danger to be flooded. That is about 50% I think.
@@Brozius2512 Floods can happen in two ways: from the sea and from rivers. There's no way 50% of the country is in reach of both.
@@therealdutchidiot Over 20% of the Netherlands is below sea level and 50% is less than one meter above it.
So that means that half of the Netherlands can still be flooded.
Thought it was 2/3 of the population living in the area that's below sea level.
@robin Actually just 26%, but 59% vulnerable to flooding by the highest tides.
Nice video . But the use of text-to-speech voice for commentary is annoying after some minutes .
Why haven't the Dutch dumped silt from the Rhine onto the areas of their country that are below sea level and raise them higher than the sea?
The lowest parts are peat. 10 to 20 meters thick. If you throw something on that peat, it will sink. So it has no use to do that. We build everything on 10-20 meter long poles. Buildings, roads and viaducts then sit on the sand below the peat.
@@ronaldderooij1774
You are saying that even though you have an unlimited supply of material to fill in the depressions, it would cost too much money to remove all of the compressible, and loose, material that's already under the areas you'd be raising?
Peat is a salable material that would probably pay for its own removal. But if there is nothing but sand below the peat, you guys are really in a bad situation.
You should think about moving somewhere else.
@@deezynar The amount of material from the slow flowing rivers is relatively low. and the surface that is under, or less than one meter above sea level is big. And yes, there is a lot of clay and sand near the rivers, but that is far from enough. Our neighbors do not allow enormous erosion of their lands...
We do use sand from the North Sea to strengthen our dunes, and the zandmotor is a good example how we use it.
It's a big pile a little south of the Hague and we let the sea spread it along the coastline.
And we like our country, so we move only during the summer, for three weeks, to more sunny areas.
@@deezynar Not moving!
@@deezynar Moving somewhere else? Why? Every area has it's problems. Flooding, drought, extreme heat, extreme cold, extreme storms, avalanches, earthquakes, political problems, poverty, dangerous animals, landslides, failing economy, war. And I probably still forgot some.
You should come to Australia, more floods and deaths than the whole history of The Netherlands..
How many more and what is Australia doing to prevent floodings.
In 1953 the Netherlands had about 11 million inhabitants
The deadliest flood in Australia was in 1825 (Gundagai) and killed between 80 to 100 people.
That is what you think. We had the St Elisabeth flood. Look .AT the dutch map
More than 15.000 people died by floodings in the history of The Netherlands.
LOL! The Australian coastline extends approximately 34 000 kilometres the Netherlands has a coastline of 450 kilometers. Go build the deltaworks in Australia i guess a few thouand times the entire world economy should do the job :P
Your dutch.
You said our country