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TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts) Sat Jul 17, 2021, 02:27 AM Jul 2021

Listening to BBC this AM and their guy is in Netherlands...

where the Dutch are gobsmacked at the flooding.

For a country largely below sea level, they are shocked that this is completely beyond their understanding.

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Listening to BBC this AM and their guy is in Netherlands... (Original Post) TreasonousBastard Jul 2021 OP

Yes... FirefighterJo Jul 2021 #1

Yep n/t malaise Jul 2021 #2

FirefighterJo

(212 posts)

1. Yes...

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Sat Jul 17, 2021, 05:17 AM

Jul 2021

Because for the Dutch, the threat always came from their coastlines. Now they are threatened from out their back yard, and on the higher part of the Netherlands, so yes, they are rightfully gobsmacked !

malaise

(268,949 posts)

2. Yep n/t

Reply to FirefighterJo (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 17, 2021, 07:53 AM

Jul 2021

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