Willem

For many years the civil engineering department at Delft Technical University (where all our engineers in this field are trained) had a...

And of course those dunes are almost entirely owned by the state, and you are not allowed to build there, with a few unfortunate...

About 100km. I live over an hour's drive from the coast and am below sea level. The big storm that initiated the Deltawerken also surged...

I was just reading an article in the Washington Post on how the risk of such disasters is impacting property values in Florida. That is...

It's really about expectations. When you get the government involved in anything there's lots of paperwork and rules to follow in...

Your country has a long history of coping with Mother Nature and living where one wishes. Fascinating.

We had a very long coastline in the southwest that we shortened by closing estuaries after 1953. The Zuiderzee coastline was similarly...

Fair enough - I forgot to realise I might be talking to Netherlanders :D But - Florida has between 5 and 40 times the coastline of...

This is that Maeslantkering. The automatic doors are 210 meters each. At 5 m height it is just the first line of defence, to close off...

And yes, all of this costs money. The southwest of the Netherlands were badly flooded by a big storm in January 1953, relatively soon...

This is at the entrance to the Oosterschelde estuary, to let in the tide, but to be able to close it when there is a storm

The design height of Dutch dikes along the coast is about 40 feet.

I am also Dutch, and it is indeed remarkable. Solving this requires two things. First, a lot of money and a willingness to spend it...

I don't understand how it caused so much flooding. The US is the wealthiest nation in the world, I'm sure you can stop any significant...