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Uh, are you asking for examples of flooding? Consider this: Delta Works and the rest of ocean polders are built to withstand something like 5m above mean sea l

• the-dude 7y ago
  > Uh, are you asking for examples of flooding? No I was asking for plenty of big failures, as claimed You are just speculating.
• jacquesm 7y ago
  There is a chance that such a storm could happen tomorrow. But the chance is a very slim one and since the Delta works the rivers have been a much bigger problem than the see. The worst possible conditions for Zeeland/Zuid Holland would be springtide, storm, the initial sea level would be relatively unimportant. The problem is that the wind drives that water ahead of it and will cause the water to rise up because it can't flow away fast enough, in part because the channel is constricted to the South, in part because such storms typically come from the South West aiming directly at the weak spot in the shore defenses. Hence the Delta Works and the storm surge protection near Rotterdam (which is an absolutely amazing work of engineering by the way): https://www.google.com/maps/search/stormvloedkering+google+maps/@51.9544683,4.1580609,1513m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/search/stormvloedkering+google+m... The scale of that thing might not be readily apparent but think of it as two Eiffel towers on their side that can move to close off the river.