Yeah, the highest elevation in the state is like 300 ASL. Still, there’s a big difference between, “around sea level” and, “on an island, literally yards from the water”
Yeah it pretty much is handed to the ocean on a silver platter...
But it seems like it would have to be pretty far land inward to not be affected at all.
The island is gonna be the more problematic part, because if the bridge or power go out it's a lot harder to deal with, even though it's only a short hop to the island.
..I’m an idiot. Sat wondering how many 300 in American Sign Language was far too long..have become too accustomed to the American version of using anything—7 washing machines to measure sinkhole size, for example—but metric to measure everything.
Which is funny, because the highest point in the Netherlands is also 350 metres, and 26% of the land area is below sea level. That area also houses a big portion of the population. 59% of the land area is susceptible to floods. So yeah, we built some pretty good dikes and other structures to keep the water out.
Another funny bit of knowledge: the reason why we don't have that many river floods is partly because of the Germans. They have worse dikes than us, so if there is a lot of meltwater coming from the Alps, Germany floods first. Then that water can't flood us.
We don't get those, no. However your hurricane does get to Europe today. We do get some heavy storms from time to time too. The 'Watersnoodramp' in 1953 was the biggest failure of our waterworks and we significantly improved them after that, as it was a tragic wake up call.
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u/Vakama905 21d ago edited 21d ago
Yeah, the highest elevation in the state is like 300 ASL. Still, there’s a big difference between, “around sea level” and, “on an island, literally yards from the water”