Stormy weather

Last week the Dutch metereological instutute issued a weather alarm for The Netherlands.

I came out of the WTC in Amsterdam and was blown aside by the wind. I had to walk trough the basement to get to the station because open air was not possible. Besides this minor incident not much happened.

Yesterday a new weather alarm was issued. Ofcourse people did not take it that seriously and just went out to do their daily routines, oops......

The storm was a bit stronger this time and the whole country was disrupted. Because of trees and tiles flying trough the air, lots of roads were closed off for all traffic, leading to massive traffic jams. Public transport was at some point cancelled in the whole country, so no trains or buses were running anywhere. Millions of people were stranded at stations or in traffic jams. The chaos was complete.

But there is another danger that we are a bit worried about. If you take a look at the picture above, you can guess what it is. For a country that has built dikes to protect itself from the water and has parts of land laying below sea level, big storms are dangerous.

The big question is now: WILL THE DIKES HOLD with current weather conditions changing?
We sure hope so :-)