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Can we just take a moment to appreciate Dutch engineering and it’s outcome
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I've seen the Netherlands' anti-storm-surge western wall. It's the most impressive / massive construction I've ever seen.
... if you want to know where Obama's Irish ancestors hailed from...
There sure are a lot of criminals down South!
If someone asked me to draw a "human impact" map... it would be similar. But much uglier...
Love the maps Bob. Have I been misspelling O'Bama's name?
My ancestors come from right here so I don't have to look around at other countries.
I had a large operation in Holland (Rotterdam) I spent a lot of time there and still have friends that I communicate with. I loved the country and its engineering expertise.
We have a huge prison population and the map really points that out.
I would change the human impact map in the US. I believe that the impact has been much larger than they show.
So the Dutch filled in all those bays? That's damned impressive!
I'm shocked that Oklahoma and Louisiana have higher prison populations than Arkansas. Does Vermont even have any prisons?
Our house in Calais (further south, on the same coastal plain) is a below the level of a very high tide. Or any significant storm surge. There's a grid of canals, from stream-sized to (small) river-sized. Water is constantly pumped to the sea.
The level in these "watringues" (the word is obviously of Dutch origin) is carefully controlled, because if too much water is expelled, the ground level would drop.
This system is centuries old. The pumps were originally wind-driven. We pay a special tax to keep the system running.
The coast is varied. Wide, flat beaches, to high cliffs. Inland of the beaches, there are fifty-foot-high dunes. Sometimes these need upkeep.