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[Map] The Netherlands in 1300 vs 1900-2000 (dormi.zone)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Hardly free, these were very expensive projects both in financial terms as well as human cost.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

It's a meme, don't take it literally

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How safe is it?

Like, if war were suddenly to break out could 10% of the country be flooded with a few torpedoes?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Maybe... I'm sure it wouldn't be great if the big dykes got blown up, but barring any insane events like this one I feel very safe, they measure all this stuff very precisely, there is actually a separate government that only deals with water management.