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>>Well, let's not forget that large parts of Netherlands are also below sea level... :)
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>>(see map showing these areas:
http://www.minbuza.nl/default.asp?CMS_ITEM=MBZ302750 )
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>Yes, and as you can see, that's also true for Haarlem, the city where I live. But we don't have hurricanes. Occasionally a storm of power 12 on the scale of Beaufort. All dikes must be able to easilly endure such a storm. And if we find only a tiny piece of some dike somewhere that appears to be fragile, it is a national scandal and debate.
I think it's a "national scandal" sending those little boys to stick their fingers in the holes in the dykes.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
