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September 8th, 2005 at 9:28 am
Lets hope that the whole world will pull together and help the flood victims. Skinnywhiteboy was actually slightly off when mentioning the ‘53 flood in the Netherlands: it was mainly the south-west (an area called the delta), the area where my parents and their family lived at that time and where I grew up. It was one of those stories of stupid neglect that builds up to a disaster, possibly not unlike the story of the delta here. The Germans had flooded the area at the end of II WW, because they thought the allies would use the area as a landing area. After that the dikes were never repaired well enough. It was known that the dikes were weak. The solution choosen during the period that the whole country was being rebuilt after WW II, was putting silly little concrete walls on top of the dikes. It took several years, but finally a spring tide combined with severe south-west storms that drove the water up between England and the Netherlands, caused the dikes to collapse in the middle of the night. My dad lost about half of his family, his fiancee and saw some of his best friends dead bodies being eaten by seaguls. My mother lived further toward the middle and had a little more time to get away. Even though I wasn’t born, I feel the event did impact my life in a big way: I might not have been born if it hadn’t happened
(since my father, after also being drafted for the war in Indonesia, finally married my mom). When I grew up, the whole row of houses (about 10 of them) across the street were houses donated by the Swedish Red Cross during the rebuild following this disaster. My grandma lived in a house that had been donated in an other town on the same island. Up to this day there are still a couple of spots where large floating concrete blocks (yes, hollow in the middle so they would float, then positioned and finally opened to let the water in and sink them) were used to fill the holes in the dikes. This was some 50+ years ago, but the area still carries some of the scars of these events. Lets all pull together and help the victims.
September 8th, 2005 at 10:03 am
Good show Skins, Marco that was an awesome post.