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This map shows inundated areas due to the flood of 15 January 1916, reported by the Dutch government in September 1916. The flood of 1916 or Zuiderzeevloed of 1916 is a flood that took place in the night between 13 and 14 January 1916 in the Netherlands along the dikes of the Zuiderzee as a result of a storm surge.
Storm flood affecting all parts of the Netherlands. Much erosion of peat areas. St. Marcellus' Flood (Sint-Marcellusvloed). 1219 West Friesland and Groningen. 36,000 This was the 4th large flood in 50 years. This had enormous consequences on the development of the two large inner seas in the Netherlands, the Zuiderzee and the Waddenzee.
The government started developing official plans to enclose the Zuiderzee. On 13 and 14 January 1916 the dikes at several places along the Zuiderzee broke under the stress of a winter storm, and the land behind them flooded, as had often happened in previous centuries. This flooding provided the decisive impetus to implement the existing plans ...
The Great Flood of July 1916 was caused by back-to-back hurricanes traveling over the southern Appalachians. The names of towns washed away from the floods include many of the same ones we've ...
1825, February 3–5, February flood of 1825, Germany and Netherlands, 800 deaths; 1916, January 13–14, Zuiderland flood Netherlands, 16 casualties and ~300 km2 flooded around the Zuiderzee this flood led to the construction of the Afsluitdijk, creating the IJsselmeer. [9] 1949, January 8, Storm disturbance in the North Sea. [10]
ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA – SEPTEMBER 28: A sign commentating the flood of 1916 lies on the ground next to a flooded waterway near the Biltmore Village in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on ...
A letter found by a North Carolina family recounted a similar flood in 1916. ... when 22 inches of rain fell there back in 1916. Shirley Rhodes thinks her grandmother’s friend wrote the letter ...
Pages in category "1916 disasters in the Netherlands" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. ... Flood of 1916; L. Zeppelin LZ 54 This page was ...