Hurricane is the English name for a very heavy storm. It’s not bound to a specific region! In Dutch we call it “Orkaan”

@laziojohnny79

4 ай бұрын

Perhaps he meant tornadoes instead and seeing the Netherlands is in Europe's tornado-alley that could make sense.

@Sonderborg75

4 ай бұрын

In Danish we call it “orkan” 😊

Very, very interesting. I have lived almost 2/3 of my life in coastal villages in the Netherlands, so this is a very interesting upload I would not have seen without subscribing to this channel. Thx.

@Justquitthebs

3 ай бұрын

Same here 😂 Never heard of Schokland. I am going to watch this series now.

I love learning about dutch history with you.

Pampus was a shallowplace near the port of Amsterdam, preventing ships to enter the port. Thus the trouble to lift commercial ships...

Very nice & engaging reaction Charlie! The way those personal histories told by the fishermen touched you was heartwarming. It's a 4-part series btw, so the way Paul H titled it might be a bit confusing since you read it (properly) as "one through four" (1 tot en met 4), but this was the first episode. Title should've said 1/4 perhaps? You'd then read it as the first one of four, right? So the nxt one is: "Once The Sea Raged Here 2-4 (eng.translation)". Notice the recent dates of posting, so I reckon Paul's busy right now subtitling the 3rd & 4th ones for you to be the first American (honorary Dutchie by now..) to grace them with a reaction ;) Last little sidenote: the canal around Schokland is a measure that had to be taken to prevent the further "sinking" of the former island from drying out. Cheers from Amsterdam!

That tune is called 'de Zuiderzee ballade '

@annebokma4637

4 ай бұрын

A song that I know the complete text. I know it better than the national anthem.

Every Eel caught here is ( a fish) concepted and "born" in the Sargasso Sea. Thats beneath the Bahama, Bermuda and Caribbean triangle. They swim growing up all the way over to Europe and even up the rivers far, far inwards the land. They can even creep up small parts over land and meadows to reach the next water pond or creek.. Here they are 1 to 3 foot long, grown up and fat, when caught and then smoked to eat. Delicious, but in danger of extinction, because of atlantic fishing and industrialized European rivers, many with dykes, dams and locks and changed to shippable canals. In my lifetime they already have gotten significant more rare. They lake , i live nearby had once fisher families and were famous for selling smoked eels, and now they have to import them from Poland or the Baltics. And that lake, by the way, never had a direct waterway connection to the sea, and was full of eels. They came through swamps.and meadows. And then at some time they decide to swim all the way back to the Sargasso Sea to mate an make new eels.

@annebokma4637

4 ай бұрын

That should be a documentary all of its own. I have seen parts of this in documentaries about how humans interfere with the way fishes travel to spawn.

Very nice reaction video. You're slowly getting a lot of facts about our country (including chronology) on a row. Bravo! About the Noordzeekanaal: that is the canal that connects Amsterdam to the North Sea (via IJmuiden).

Where they walk around on Schokland is a awesome museum to visit. We drove past my whole life but we went to the museum a few years ago and it is really worth a visit 👍

please do the rest of the series Charlie.. its so heart warming to hear you talk about Cornelis Lely. do you know that you know more of the Netherlands and its history than many Dutch people who are born and raised here. i learned a lot myself from you and Highly Combustible. about our history and heritage. please keep educating me. Love from Amsterdam.

Fun fact, northern France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and western Germany are the hurricane hotspot in Europe. Per square mile we have more hurricanes than in the USA, although they tend to be a little bit less violent. EF4 and EF 5 hurricanes are extremely rare.

Not more dangerous, just very treacherous. What seems to be a quite lake, can turn into a rough sea in minutes.

46:22 the low part might be for water drainage. The house is on a hill and if it rains and the fields flood, the farmer can keep his stuff dry.

Great reaction video Charlie. you can explain and supplement what was said. 🇳🇱👍

Those are eels indeed, have you ever eaten smoked eel? Its so freaking good. But the eel isnt doing well so they are getting very expensive

We do get 'hurricanes' over here, but not often the likes you see in the US. Here they're often less defined as a hurricane on satellite imagery, and it doesn't always show as a clear rotating storm with an eye in the center. However that doesn't mean they can't reach the same high winds and do a lot of damage. Many of these storms we get early in the year (around this time actually, usually October-April) and are often leftovers from the hurricanes that hit the US. Many of these storms start forming along the coast of West-Africa as you might know, they then cross the Atlantic (usually around the equator where winds travel West) until they reach the hotter waters of the Gulf of Mexico. They then make landfall in the US, after which they often cross the entirety of the Atlantic Ocean again but in opposite direction (winds above the equator often travel East) until they finally reach Europe. The UK, the Netherlands and Belgium are often right in the path these storms track along, as these storms will then head in an Eastern direction towards Germany, Denmark or up into Scandinavia.

Eels do about 18 to 20 euro/ pound in a shop in case you are wondering... so the price quadruples basically. They are fish.

Two towns in the Noordoostpolder are named after Marknesse and Nagele. While Beulake is remembered in the name of the beulakermeer. The Urker fish market is a great place to get good value 😊

The 'North Sea canal' goes from Amsterdam to IJmuiden (21 kilometres) . Opened in 1876. So not Rotterdam

@almost end of the video: 1-4 = Part 1 of 4, 2-4 = Part 2 of 4 and so on.. Please do the rest, this was interesting!

Cornelis Lely is the guy who developed 'de Afsluitdijk' and some more ambitious polder projects. Not all of them, but many, have been realised today.

Nicest thing I learned here is that the lake is only 3 meters deep. New sediment is transported in by the IJssel River and by whatever. Theoretically the lake will also be land in a future closer by than we think. Makes me very proud.

I live on a hill that used to be an island 500 years ago. The whole town was just an archipelago. Now the sea is 4km away. The harbor used to be even more to the inland where i live. We did not have to build any dams, the land rises here about 10mm a year. One of the funniest things is the "long bridge" that is now just 20m, one of the shortest across the canal, that bridge used to be 200m long.. And the canal used to be the bay. There is a whole suburb that is half built on top of what used to be water when i was a kid.

In Bunschoten-Spakenburg. are held from April to September. Every Tuesday evening, sailed in competitions. I often participate with my father-in-law.

The biggest problem with the Zuiderzee (and IJsselmeer) is it's shallowness like the professional sailor said 3 to 4 meters (10 to 13 feet). just outside the Waddenzee (north side of the Afsluitdijk) you get the North Sea (in dutch coastal regions 10 to 22 meters deep) with it 10 to 20 meter (30 to 65 feet) waves on a quiet authumn day... Now imagine those rolling into the shallow Zuiderzee ? Between the waves the bottom would show ( grondzee ) and it would hit the land like any tsunami you ever seen... p.s. I never heard of copyright on classical music... B|

Something that wasn’t mentioned, was the fact that Schokland is placed on the list of UNESCO World Heritage since 1995. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schokland

16:29 your G sound has improved a lot! keep it up man!

The story is a bit confusing. The villages which were taken by the sea was before the closure. The problem with high tide and wind from the northwest made that the water was pushed inland from the shore, because it couldn't go anywhere else. So the combination of a northwest storm with high tide was devastating for all those coastal villages. Because of the waterworks now, those villages are protected. The problem is the fishermen had to go out further for their catch. Eels are fish but also amphibians. They sometimes crawl over land to reach the spot where they were born to give birth themselves.

Northsea canal is a hand/steam engine dug canal between IJmuiden (north sea) fishing village and Amsterdam (IJsselmeer) So it was a direct connection to sea with sluices at IJmuiden side. Believe there are also KZread video’s on the dig off this canal.

A little correction: the South Sea should be the Southern Sea, that was the estuary of the IJssel river. The South Sea is the Pacific. The big flood around the Southern Sea was in 1916, around Zeeland was in 1953.

Honestly, the Netherlands are actually the last resisting bit of 'Doggerland', a landmass that once connected Germany/Denmark/Netherlands to the british isles and ireland and the scandinavian peninsula. It was swallowed by the sea over several millenias, turning the baltic sea from a lake into a sea and separating GB from Europe. Technically, Netherlands should be down under too, but it's pretty much the last resistance.

About the hurricanes: these often start in the carabien ocean and then they make their way up. They follow the east coast of the USA and then cross the ocean towards europe. Then they will have changed into a large storm depression.

Eels are not a close relation to snakes: they are fish. The problem with North Sea flooding is from a phenomena called a tidal surge. This is where a spring tide (high) has the wind pile water on top of the normal high tide (a fetch). It doesn't need a hurricane to do this. The UK also suffered extensive flooding in 1953 in Norfolk and Suffolk. Centuries ago, a tidal surge destroyed Godwin island and today this is known as Goodwin sands (the land never recovered).

In the Netherlands they often speak about a major storm with hurricane force winds.

The "Maas"goes thru rotterdam. The "Noordzeekanaal goes from the iJsselmeer( Former Southsea) above Amsterdam to IJmuiden at the coast.

Yes I live in that new part called Swifterbant Flevoland close to Urk.

Hey Charlie, if this topic is something for you, perhaps you best check Lake Flevo on wikipedia. The Zuiderzee is actually a very shortlived sea inlet. You cannot fully understand the history of the low countries without understanding the switching importance of inlets like IJzer, Zwin, Honte, Oosterschelde, Zuiderzee, Waddenzee ea. Something happened to a sea inlet and ports have suddenly no more maritime access..... fe Brugges and the Zwin.

200 kilometer between Delta Works in Zeeland and the Afsluitdijk in the north. 200 and more

If you ever decide to visit the Netherlands, and want to visit the IJsselmeer, hit me up. I've got a little sloop, and I'd be happy to take you Also, the Sea Beggars came into existence when the Spanish started persecuting protestant Christians in the Netherlands. Many of the protestants from coastal villages took to sea, together with refugees, beggars, thieves and highwaymen. Eventually, they were joined by fleeing protestants from Belgium and France, too. They raided all over (in the to-be Netherlands as well), and after a layover in England, they returned to Den Briel in 1572, and easily took the city from the Spanish. From there, they started retaking more cities in the name of William of Orange. They were a mixed bunch, but intriguing nonetheless.

1953 was in the south of the netherlands, Zeeland. This is about the middle of the country.

oO he starts at the Hoorn. I live there ^^

I grew up in a town a few kilometres south of the village of Bunschoten-Spakenburg and had colleagues and classmates from that village. Also I visited Schokland last summer for the first time in my life.

top video again very educational and interesting

Europe also get very heavy storm that has hurricane power and tornadoes. And parts of hurricanes. Eel (Paling) Is a fish.

Wind force 10 or more...we call a hurricane (orkaan)....and trust me...windforce 8 is already hard enough

Capricious is jusr a normal english word meaning unpredictable. The canal doesn't run from Amsterdam to Rotterdam but to IJmuiden. Just look at a map. Nowadays most eel comes from Ireland. I just saw online that 500 grams cost 26.50 euros in The Netherlands. Smoked eel is considered a delicacy.

All the Dutch fishermen were out on the Zuiderzee and the Noordzee. Far enough. No oceans around the Netherlands

10:00 shows charlie knowing his metrics. 20m high is 60ft(aprox). thats friggin high dude!

North Sea canal is the connection from Amsterdam to the North Sea

Ijsel lake water still tastes different from fresh water. Fun fact : Gibraltar straight is narrower then Ijsel lake 😁if you go from Frisia to North Holland

He starts with a story of the Zuiderzee flood of 1916

Today they found remains in the ijselmeer of an old vilage that was washed away in 1775

I am Dutch, but even for me this was very interesting. When I was a child we biked with the whole family over the dikes to Lelystad-haven (only some wooden barracks), before all the water was pumped out

no The Netherlands as been a victim of the sea for ages, this was thier battle and thier bread. only in the 20th century this was a new story...so the sea took, but gave, that has gone now...bitter sweet this story is...Ijsselmeer, no fish anymore, no more a place of abundance..

1953 was in province Zeeland and zuid Holland this video is about former Zuiderzee now the IJsselmeer.

Probable the 1916 one i believe that was the last one over there. 1953 was in zeeland. As for the brickhouse it looks like a fairly modern brick but thos where around in1825 so it could have been there. Never ben to the place so your guess is as good as mine.

Yes Charlie. She is right you learned a lot more than most morons here. Thank you for all the info. We learn the empty gaps we did NOT know.👍👊♥️

Ah Dutch shipbuilding. And I agree with... indodutchgirl (was it?) You are most welcome, should you ever succeed in moving here

Consider this:Its now a lot smaller lake!!So back in the days all this was much harder!And its smaller because off the "new"polders.And i live in one off those polders,the one near Amsterdam.In a village called Almere.

A hurricane around here is a blow of over 11 or 12 Beaufort. It,s not a tropical hurricane

Paling now cost you around 40€ for 1 kilo. Very expensive now these days.

Thats not Hurricandes so often, what they speak about are low pressure systems forming huge rotating storms traveling the west wind drift across the north atlantic , They can get as strong as hurricanes at times, but they are huge with diameters of hundreds of miles and are so devastating, because it takes days for them to cross local areas. And that includes several cycles of ebb tides and high tides (floods). They the are called "storm floods" and they destroy so much. They are a whole different story, than a "small" hurricane, which has a diameter of a few hundred feet and lasts 30 seconds to pass, not days and several hundred miles.

Guess the Larry with Kwakman is the old harbor

But there was fish!! and nowadays there is none left in the Ijsselmeer.... Zuiderzee was teaming with fish! Im from Friesland, we know it. Its a dead lake. Still the Sea was a beast with storms.

The so called sea beggars where sort of rebbelious pirates they fought the spanish , you learned about this in your 7 part 80 years videos if im right.

A kotter is longer than a botter

it should have been translated as grimm side, capricious is way to weird translation of the dutch grimmig

This is just part 1 of 4 right?

Yep... Urkse flag...

Noord Zee kanaal en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Canal