Innovative Flood Defense Engineering in the Netherlands

The storm and flooding occurred during the night of Saturday, 31 January to the morning of 1 February 1953. A combination of a high spring tide and a severe ...

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In the Netherlands, approximately 100,000 people were evacuated, 340,000 acres were flooded, 47,300 buildings were damaged, 30,000 livestock were killed, and ...

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31 to Feb. 1, 1953. In the Netherlands some 400,000 acres (162,0000 hectares) flooded, causing at least 1,800 deaths and widespread property damage. In eastern ...

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The 1953 flood began with a storm and high tide, causing dike breaches, reaching 455cm above sea level, with a second flood, and 873 victims in Zeeland.

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31 Jan 2023 — The flood came in two devastating waves on January 1 and February 1 and cost the lives of 1,836 people. A further 72,000 were evacuated. Some ...

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31 Jan 2023 — On the night of 31 January 1953, a wall of water surged from the North Sea, over-topping sea defences and leaving a trail of death and ...

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During the weekend of Saturday 31 January to Sunday 1 February 1953, a storm tide raged across the northwest European shelf and flooded the low-lying coastal ...

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by K d’Angremond · Cited by 19 — In the Netherlands alone, more than 1800 people drowned and 135,000 ha of land were flooded. The first days after the event, the extent of the disaster was ...9 pages

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The 1953 North Sea flood, caused by a storm and high tide, killed nearly 2,000, destroyed 47,000 structures, and affected 750,000 people. It also killed 200, ...

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