mindhack wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:

HughMcB wrote:Good luck Netherlands!

We will be safe Hugh. We are prepared and continue to maintain all our systems.

I think large parts of Britain will be at greater risk. Just this last period as proven that. We had no flooding.

No we're not safe. What a ridiculous thing to say.

There's a very expensive system of dams and dikes in place and it needs regular maintaining. It costs billions a year. I alone pay nearly 300 euro for it every year.

Then there's climate change, more heavy rain and periods of droughts. Both are equally hazardous and costly. Heavy rain will cause rivers to flood while drought does serious damage to dikes.

Then there's rising sea levels. It will not eat our coast line away as long as enormous amounts of sand are drops each year to prevent this. This is, again, expensive.

Then there's the inherent salinification of soil because of rising sea levels and sinking land (yes, a good chunk of land is actually sinking). The sea is poring in from below, spoiling the ground water. The Netherlands produces quite a lot of food, transforming water surpluses and fertile soil into export goods. The damage is quite costly and undermines a healthy economy.

Add to the above that our economy is sick as fuck as it stands, and will soon become much worse still, I would say we're on very thin ice.

We're far from safe.

mindhack wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:

HughMcB wrote:Good luck Netherlands!

We will be safe Hugh. We are prepared and continue to maintain all our systems.

I think large parts of Britain will be at greater risk. Just this last period as proven that. We had no flooding.

No we're not safe. What a ridiculous thing to say.

There's a very expensive system of dams and dikes in place and it needs regular maintaining. It costs billions a year. I alone pay nearly 300 euro for it every year.

Then there's climate change, more heavy rain and periods of droughts. Both are equally hazardous and costly. Heavy rain will cause rivers to flood while drought does serious damage to dikes.

Then there's rising sea levels. It will not eat our coast line away as long as enormous amounts of sand are drops each year to prevent this. This is, again, expensive.

Then there's the inherent salinification of soil because of rising sea levels and sinking land (yes, a good chunk of land is actually sinking). The sea is poring in from below, spoiling the ground water. The Netherlands produces quite a lot of food, transforming water surpluses and fertile soil into export goods. The damage is quite costly and undermines a healthy economy.

Add to the above that our economy is sick as fuck as it stands, and will soon become much worse still, I would say we're on very thin ice.

We're far from safe.

mindhack wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:

HughMcB wrote:Good luck Netherlands!

We will be safe Hugh. We are prepared and continue to maintain all our systems.

I think large parts of Britain will be at greater risk. Just this last period as proven that. We had no flooding.

No we're not safe. What a ridiculous thing to say.

There's a very expensive system of dams and dikes in place and it needs regular maintaining. It costs billions a year. I alone pay nearly 300 euro for it every year.

Then there's climate change, more heavy rain and periods of droughts. Both are equally hazardous and costly. Heavy rain will cause rivers to flood while drought does serious damage to dikes.

Then there's rising sea levels. It will not eat our coast line away as long as enormous amounts of sand are drops each year to prevent this. This is, again, expensive.

Then there's the inherent salinification of soil because of rising sea levels and sinking land (yes, a good chunk of land is actually sinking). The sea is poring in from below, spoiling the ground water. The Netherlands produces quite a lot of food, transforming water surpluses and fertile soil into export goods. The damage is quite costly and undermines a healthy economy.

Add to the above that our economy is sick as fuck as it stands, and will soon become much worse still, I would say we're on very thin ice.

We're far from safe.

Scot Dutchy wrote:

mindhack wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:

HughMcB wrote:Good luck Netherlands!

We will be safe Hugh. We are prepared and continue to maintain all our systems.

I think large parts of Britain will be at greater risk. Just this last period as proven that. We had no flooding.

No we're not safe. What a ridiculous thing to say.

There's a very expensive system of dams and dikes in place and it needs regular maintaining. It costs billions a year. I alone pay nearly 300 euro for it every year.

Then there's climate change, more heavy rain and periods of droughts. Both are equally hazardous and costly. Heavy rain will cause rivers to flood while drought does serious damage to dikes.

Then there's rising sea levels. It will not eat our coast line away as long as enormous amounts of sand are drops each year to prevent this. This is, again, expensive.

Then there's the inherent salinification of soil because of rising sea levels and sinking land (yes, a good chunk of land is actually sinking). The sea is poring in from below, spoiling the ground water. The Netherlands produces quite a lot of food, transforming water surpluses and fertile soil into export goods. The damage is quite costly and undermines a healthy economy.

Add to the above that our economy is sick as fuck as it stands, and will soon become much worse still, I would say we're on very thin ice.

We're far from safe.

Can I see some data on that? Your post sound like that written by a very disgruntled voter of a small minority party.

I was twenty years in engineering consultancy where you pulled this out I dont know. Of course there are always terror stories around but basically things are quite under control. Reading too much from De Telegraf. It sees danger everywhere.

If our economy is sick god help the rest of the world.

Fallible wrote:

mindhack wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:

HughMcB wrote:Good luck Netherlands!

We will be safe Hugh. We are prepared and continue to maintain all our systems.

I think large parts of Britain will be at greater risk. Just this last period as proven that. We had no flooding.

No we're not safe. What a ridiculous thing to say.

There's a very expensive system of dams and dikes in place and it needs regular maintaining. It costs billions a year. I alone pay nearly 300 euro for it every year.

Then there's climate change, more heavy rain and periods of droughts. Both are equally hazardous and costly. Heavy rain will cause rivers to flood while drought does serious damage to dikes.

Then there's rising sea levels. It will not eat our coast line away as long as enormous amounts of sand are drops each year to prevent this. This is, again, expensive.

Then there's the inherent salinification of soil because of rising sea levels and sinking land (yes, a good chunk of land is actually sinking). The sea is poring in from below, spoiling the ground water. The Netherlands produces quite a lot of food, transforming water surpluses and fertile soil into export goods. The damage is quite costly and undermines a healthy economy.

Add to the above that our economy is sick as fuck as it stands, and will soon become much worse still, I would say we're on very thin ice.

We're far from safe.

In fact didn't they have to evacuate people from their homes last year because one of the dams was leaking and in danger of collapsing?

Paula wrote:I heard the Dutch seagulls shit real icecream

Paula wrote:I heard the Dutch seagulls shit real icecream

mindhack wrote:

Paula wrote:I heard the Dutch seagulls shit real icecream

I heard you're the big bully around here

mindhack wrote:The "waterschappen" need to maintain circa 18.000 km of dikes/dams/dunes and more than 200.000 km of water ways, big and small. It's a huge task. It's a rather remarkable feat this living-under-the-sea-business.

I consider it something temporary. We'll lose one day. Feeling safe is silly.

MacIver wrote:

Paula wrote:I heard the Dutch seagulls shit real icecream

That's a necessity when you have so many stoners about.

Fallible wrote:

mindhack wrote:The "waterschappen" need to maintain circa 18.000 km of dikes/dams/dunes and more than 200.000 km of water ways, big and small. It's a huge task. It's a rather remarkable feat this living-under-the-sea-business.

I consider it something temporary. We'll lose one day. Feeling safe is silly.

Sounds like the Fens over here. That's all land taken from the sea, and no doubt the sea will get it back one day.

LucidFlight wrote:

MacIver wrote:

Paula wrote:I heard the Dutch seagulls shit real icecream

That's a necessity when you have so many stoners about.

A stoner would probably kill a couple of seagulls just to get their hands on the ice cream.

laklak wrote:

LucidFlight wrote:

MacIver wrote:

Paula wrote:I heard the Dutch seagulls shit real icecream

That's a necessity when you have so many stoners about.

A stoner would probably kill a couple of seagulls just to get their hands on the ice cream.

Dude, like, no way. Seagulls are like, really cool and stuff.

OK, so, ice cream is also like really cool and stuff. But we can, you know, share.

mindhack wrote:

Fallible wrote:

mindhack wrote:The "waterschappen" need to maintain circa 18.000 km of dikes/dams/dunes and more than 200.000 km of water ways, big and small. It's a huge task. It's a rather remarkable feat this living-under-the-sea-business.

I consider it something temporary. We'll lose one day. Feeling safe is silly.

Sounds like the Fens over here. That's all land taken from the sea, and no doubt the sea will get it back one day.

Yes, the Fens pretty much is exactly the same. Not entirely surprising a Dutchmen designed it 300 years ago.

mindhack wrote:Yes, 2012, Wilnis, evacuated before the dike collapsed. Caused by drought. Luckily it was a small river.