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	Netherlands - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		It borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east.
		Elisabeth flood of 1421 and the mismanagement in its aftermath destroyed a newly reclaimed polder, replacing it with the 72 km² Biesbosch tidal floodplains in the southcentre.
		After the 1953 disaster, the Delta project, a vast construction effort designed to end the threat from the sea once and for all, was launched in 1958 and largely completed in 2002.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/n/e/t/Netherlands.html (3852 words)

	North Sea flood of 1953 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		North Sea flood of 1953 in the Netherlands
		The North Sea flood of 1953 and the associated storm combined to create a major natural disaster which affected the coastlines of the Netherlands and England on the night of 31 January 1953 – 1 February 1953.
		In the night of 31 January/1 February 1953 many dikes in the provinces of Zeeland, Zuid-Holland and Noord-Brabant proved not to be resistant to the combination of spring tide and a northwesterly storm.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Sea_Flood_of_1953 (1257 words)

	Flood
		Floods from sea may be caused by heavy storm (storm surge), high tide, a tsunami or a combination thereoff.
		Floods happen when soil and vegetation cannot absorb all the water; water then runs off the land in quantities that cannot be carried in stream channels or kept in natural ponds or man-made reservoirs.
		The Red River Flood of 1997 was a major flood that occurred in April and May 1997, along the Red River of the North in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Manitoba.
	www.kopete.org /Flood.html (1910 words)

	SEMP - The Catastrophic 1953 North Sea Flood of the Netherlands
		SEMP - The Catastrophic 1953 North Sea Flood of the Netherlands
		SEMP Biot #317: The Catastrophic 1953 North Sea Flood of the Netherlands
		On February 4, 1953, the prime minister announced the formation of the “Delta Committee”, which, in August 1953, gave its advice for the prioritization of the restoration of the levee system: the dike of Schouwen and the moveable storm surge barrier in the Holland IJsell.
	www.semp.us /biots/biot_317.html (1459 words)

	FLOODS FLOODING HURRICANES TORNADOES BAD WEATHER STORM CONDITIONS
		A flood (in Old English flod, a word common to Teutonic languages; compare German Flut, Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float) is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge.
		The annual cycle of flood and farming was of great significance to many early farming cultures, most famously to the ancient Egyptians of the Nile river and to the Mesopotamians of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
		Floods happen when soil and vegetation cannot absorb all the water ; water then runs off the land in quantities that cannot be carried in stream channels or kept in natural ponds or man-made reservoirs.
	www.solarnavigator.net /floods.htm (1947 words)

	North Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between Norway and Denmark in the east, the United Kingdom in the west, and Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France in the south.
		An offshoot of the North Sea is the Skagerrak, between Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, which connects to the Baltic Sea through the Kattegat, Öresund, the Great Belt and the Little Belt.
		Major rivers that drain into the North Sea include the Elbe (at Cuxhaven), the Weser (at Bremerhaven), the Ems at Emden, the Rhine and Meuse (at Rotterdam), the Scheldt (at Flushing), the Thames, and the Humber (at Hull).
	north-sea.mindbit.com (329 words)

	EDP24: 1953 Floods
		The North Sea – cold, icy and treacherous – lashed the shorelines of the Norfolk coast but, apart from the grey and menacing tides, gave little clue as to what it had in store for that fateful evening.
		Many were mindful of the ferocity of the sea and their thoughts were with the families of those who had lost their lives in the sinking of the Princess Victoria in the Irish Sea a few days earlier.
		A few hundred miles to the north, and in the midst of the seas, storm-force north-westerly winds on the western flank of the depression swept the whole of the northern approaches to the North Sea, dragging vast quantities of surface water.
	www.edp24.co.uk /Content/Features/Floods/asp/AngrySea1.asp (916 words)

	1953 - Flood disaster -The Dutch struggle against the waters.
		In February 1953 the Netherlands faced disaster when the dikes protecting the southwest of the country were breached by the joint onslaught of a hurricane-force northwesterly wind and exceptionally high spring tides.
		Flooding caused by storm surges were nothing new to the Netherlands, but this time the nation was stunned by the extent of a disaster unparalleled for centuries.
		It was he who - prompted by the disastrous floods of 1916 - was finally to commission the necessary works to seal off the Zuyder Zee from the North Sea by constructing a Barrier Dam from the tip of North Holland to the Frisian mainland.
	www.thehollandring.com /1953-ramp.shtml (1305 words)

	Met Office: Great weather events: the UK east coast floods of 1953
		The storm that caused the disastrous surge at the end of January 1953 was among the worst to visit the UK in the 20th century.
		Recently the weather data available at the time of the 1953 event were re-analysed by the Met Office's numerical prediction models, and the results showed accurate predictions of the movement and intensity of the storm surge.
		Surges are caused mainly by the action of wind on the surface of the sea, with barometric pressure a secondary factor.
	www.metoffice.gov.uk /corporate/pressoffice/anniversary/floods1953.html (734 words)

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		Many of the current measures and technologies present in Holland to battle floods were inspired in great part by the catastrophic flood of 1953.
		It was in this year that a violent storm surge produced by the turbulent currents of the North Sea battered the coasts of Holland, killing an estimated 1800 people.
		First, outlets located in the southwest region of the country were to be completely sealed off from the sea and secondly, the coast was to be shrunk from 3400 km to approximately 700 km through construction of a massive concrete barrier not finished until 1986 (2).
	www.uoguelph.ca /~dgundrum/flood_history.htm (164 words)

	BBC - British Isles - A User's Guide To Natural History
		The storm of January 31 1953 is described as the worst peacetime disaster that the UK has known.
		In 1953 there was a combination of an intense low pressure heading down the North Sea, hurricane force winds and a high tide.
		There was no flood warning system and the first most people knew about their danger was when water several feet deep crashed into their homes.
	www.open2.net /naturalhistory/1953.html (627 words)

	Deltawerken - The flood of 1953
		In 1953, the Dutch were once again confronted with the power of the sea.
		It was to be one of the biggest floods in the history of the Netherlands.
		Within the sub-articles, you will learn what factors influenced the flood, where the flood damage occurred, and what the scope of the flood was.
	www.deltawerken.com /The-flood-of-1953/89.html (84 words)

	SeaFloodWebsite
		A serious North Sea Surge can be brought about by this combination of a high tide, heavy rain, a low barometric pressure and a sustained strong northerly gale.
		With global warming melting ice caps and glaciers, causing worsening northerly gales of longer duration more frequently, coupled with thermally induced sea rise, an extra dimension is added to the risk of inundation by a sea rise of some 6 cm per year.
		In 1953 over 300 lives were lost in Norfolk alone when the North Sea burst through the poorly maintained sea defences.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /norfolkraynet/SITEFILES/SeaFlooding.htm (950 words)

	1953 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		January 31-February 1 - North Sea flood of 1953 kills 1,835 people in the southwestern Netherlands (especially Zeeland), 307 in the United Kingdom and several hundred at sea, including 132 on the ferry Princess Victoria in the Irish Sea
		February 1 - Surge of North Sea Flood of 1953 continues from the previous day.
		The Japanese 10 yen coin was issued with serrated edges for a five year period beginning in 1953.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/1953 (2610 words)

	NETHERLANDS : Encyclopedia Entry
		This is not terminologically precise, as the provinces of North and South Holland in the western Netherlands are only two of the country's twelve provinces (for more on this and other naming issues see Netherlands (terminology)).
		The Netherlands is a densely populated and geographically low-lying country and is popularly known for its windmills, cheese, clogs (wooden shoes), dikes, tulips, bicycles and social tolerance.
		Elizabeth flood of 1421 and the mismanagement in its aftermath destroyed a newly reclaimed polder, replacing it with the 72 square kilometres (28 sq mi) Biesbosch tidal floodplains in the south-centre.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Netherlands (4817 words)

	onlinefx destination guide to Netherlands
		This is not terminologically precise, since the provinces of North and South Holland in the western Netherlands are only two of the country's twelve provinces.
		The St. Elizabeth flood of 1421 and the mismanagement in its aftermath destroyed a newly reclaimed polder, replacing it with the 72 square kilometres (28 sq mi) Biesbosch tidal floodplains in the south-centre.
		To guard against floods, a series of defenses against the water were contrived.
	www.onlinefx.co.uk /fx/Stores/OnlineFX/destinationguide/netherlands.asp (1039 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Documentaries - Flooded Britain
		In 1953 large areas of northern Holland and Lincolnshire were flooded before the surge tide reached Essex and the Thames where the devastation was greatest.
		With improved walls along the North Sea's northern shores, surge tides can no longer spread sideways and it is possible that even more water might be funnelled south along the East Anglian coast.
		In October 2002, five holes were made in the sea wall allowing the farmland to flood and salt marsh to grow once more.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/documentaries/features/flooded-britain.shtml (495 words)

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		The flood gates across the openings are radial, i.e., half-cylindrical, and they operate by rotating, raised by hydraulics out of a horizontal sill below the water to form the barrier.
		After 307 people died in the UK in the North Sea Flood of 1953 the issue gained new prominence.
		Early proposals for a flood control system were stymied by the need for a large opening in the barrier to allow for vessels from London Docks to pass through.
	www.briansprediction.com /dd/3407.htm (1072 words)

	BBC - Kent Weather - The Great Flood of 1953
		As sea defences were washed away by huge waves, the Thames and Medway estuaries were inundated with more water than they could handle and along the North East Kent coast wave action ruined beaches and sand dunes.
		The shape of the North Sea around the Kent coast is very different from the shape further North and this has a significant impact on how much damage Kent suffered.
		The sea surrounding Kent is actually much shallower and much narrower, so as the water travelled southwards, there was a huge build up of water in a very small area - resulting in severe flooding.
	www.bbc.co.uk /kent/weather/features/great_flood.shtml (568 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Dutch recall "Misery of 1953"
		Now, the country that has been building dikes and battling the sea since the Middle Ages is using new lessons from the New Orleans flood as a political catalyst to re-examine its own flood defenses, many of which were developed in response to the 1953 calamity.
		A five-year study due to be published in January is likely to include new calculations of flood threats to the Netherlands and gaps in the country's readiness, according to experts and government officials familiar with the findings.
		A scientist who warned of the high probability of the 1953 floods was prohibited by the government from publishing his direst predictions, which ultimately proved correct.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002506659_katdutch20.html (1109 words)

	CURBE Floods
		To complement the extensive knowledge of damage from slow-rise flood depth, this study investigated damage from the lateral pressure from flood depth differential between the inside and outside of a residence and flood velocity.
		On the night of 31 January to 1 February 1953, a storm surge in the southern North Sea resulted in catastrophic flooding on the coasts of England and the Netherlands, claiming over 2,000 lives.
		Although sea defences were subsequently strengthened and raised in both countries, and no comparable event has happened since, the threat of another major disaster has not been eliminated.
	www.arct.cam.ac.uk /curbe/floods.html (2241 words)

	Zeeland
		Most of the province lies beneath sea level and was reclaimed from the sea by the people over time.
		The North Sea flood of 1953 claimed vast amounts of land that were only partially reclaimed.
		The catastrophic North Sea Flood of 1953, which killed over 1,800 people in Zeeland, led to the construction of the protective Delta Works.
	www.globalguide.org /index.html?id=43111 (983 words)

	NOVA \| Storm That Drowned a City \| Flood Proofing Cities (non-Flash) \| PBS
		Built to withstand the kind of tremendous flood estimated to occur only once in 10,000 years, the gates have so far done their job successfully.
		Over the years, several disastrous floods, including the two largest in 1824 and 1924, have left considerable death and destruction in their wake.
		This, combined with rising sea levels and periodic storms that cause the Adriatic Sea to flood Venice's lagoon, creates a phenomenon known as acqua alta, or high water—in other words, flooding.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/orleans/proo-nf.html (1074 words)

	Deltaworks
		The flood of 1953 was one of the worst
		The commission is take into account the rice of the rising of the sea and the fall of Holland till 2000.
		The conclusion of that study is that the sea hole must be embank.
	library.thinkquest.org /C001635F/engdelta2.htm (275 words)

	NPR : How the Dutch Mastered the North Sea
		When it's calm on the North Sea, the storm surge barriers are a popular attraction.
		The characteristic windmills that once dotted the countryside were used primarily as pumps to keep the North Sea at bay.
		In 1953, hundreds of miles of dikes along rivers gave way in a violent storm and the flooding killed nearly 2,000 people.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4847805 (360 words)

	The Bagel And The Rat » Blog Archive » Music Review: Indie Round-Up for Sept. 7 2006 - Broonzy, ...
		In early 1953, at the top of his game, he played a series of concerts in Holland, two of which were recorded by Louis van Gasteren, who later became a noted filmmaker.
		Poor people got the worst of the disastrous Mississippi River floods of the 1920s, with some starving to death waiting to be rescued, and little has changed.
		Also, the great North Sea Flood of 1953, in which over 1800 Dutch lost their lives, had occurred only days before these concerts.
	jonsobel.com /?p=159 (962 words)

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		“Floods Devastate South – Hundreds of Homes Evacuated”; that was the headline in The Times on this day over three decades ago.
		Sea conditions are the product of the behaviour of the wind, not just in the immediate vicinity, but also at a distance – sometimes a great
		The floods on the river Derwent which so savagely hit hundreds of homes in Malton, Norton,
	www.weather-uk.com /press/flood.html (441 words)

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