I read the articles from Marijke de Vrij. There are some things in those articles which I never thought of although it's rather simple physics. For example; The vibes, from drilling oil (gas) in the Northsea, coming all the way to the shores of the Netherlands and the structure of the settling sand from the yearly sandsuppletions. Never thought of those things.
Personally I'am not afraid (yet) for a big wave hitting us.
If one comes from the Atlantic ocean we are protected. England and France will be the buffer and a "small" amount will get through The Channel. As the water widens behind The Channel the space for the water increases and the force will decrease. I think the dikes will hold this kind of emergency.
If one comes from the Northsea, Iceland (Ring of Fire
http://images.google.nl/imgres?imgur...%3D2%26hl%3Dnl )or Greenland, then the stituation will be more dangerous. The Channel will be the bottleneck and the water will rise extremly fast. Still the biggest havoc will be in the south of England, the north-west of France and the coast of Belgium. We will have wet feet in this situation but I think we will survive this one.
The thing which "frightens" me most a the moment is that our gouvernement is thinking mostly how to protect against the water by building more and higher dikes. What will happen if the water comes from the other side and/or the sky?? River and polders will be overfilled and the capacity of the pumps is to low to get it all out.
They are increasing the pumpcapicity at the moment but will it be enough?
I was born and raised a few hundred meters from the water. The house I live in was flooded during the flood of 1953. Still the salt is coming out of the walls every day. I've seen (sailed) the Northsea/water during hurricanes and nothing on this planet is comparible to the strength of water in anger.
Slowy but surely I'm setting my mind on selling my house and leaving this place, move to higher grounds. Somebody got a room to rent??????