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The village survived two floods in 1530 and 1532 and a fire in 1540. In 1575 the Spanish commander Mondragon besieged it and shot the village to pieces. After that blow it was never rebuilt. The Grevelingen did the rest in the 17th century. The last occupants left in 1684. The remains of Bommenede still years later showed above water. Brieskerke
Walcheren suffered a particularly large amount of damage. It took years before people managed to get their lives back on track. The chronicle of the Quedlinburg abbey in Saxony: 1042 Flemish coast and in particular the region of the Yser mouth. Flood mentioned in Annales Blandiniensis . 1163 The Netherlands experienced several floods this year.
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.
Floods covered 9% of Dutch farmland, and sea water flooded 1,365 km 2 (527 sq mi) of land. An estimated 30,000 animals drowned, and 47,300 buildings were damaged, of which 10,000 had to be demolished (or were swept away). The total damage is estimated at 1 billion Dutch guilders.
A man sprays water on a car in front of a house engulfed in flames from the Eaton Fire in the Altadena neighborhood on Jan. 8, 2025. / Credit: Getty Images Smoke from the Palisades Fire is seen ...
The Watersnoodmuseum or Flood Museum in Ouwerkerk, Netherlands is the "National Knowledge and Remembrance Centre for the Floods of 1953" and offers an in-depth picture of the events during and after the flood of 1 February 1953. The museum was officially opened on 2 April 2001.
An aerial view of utility vehicles parked near beachfront homes destroyed in the Palisades Fire as wildfires cause damage and loss through the L.A. region on Jan. 13, 2025 in Malibu, California.
A firefighter helicopter drops water at the Franklin Fire while it burns in the Pacific Coast Highway in the morning on Wednesday, December 11, 2024 near Malibu, California.