Amateur Radio Emergency Communications - Communication During the September 11 Attacks, North Sea Flood of 1953 (Paperback)

Chapters: Communication During the September 11 Attacks, North Sea Flood of 1953, Amateur Radio Communications Team, Section Emergency Coordinator, Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference, Command Center, Simulated Emergency Test. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The North Sea flood of 1953 (Dutch: Watersnoodramp: 'the flood disaster') and the associated storm combined to create a major natural disaster which affected the coastlines of the Netherlands and England on the night of 31 January 1 February 1953. Belgium, Denmark and France were also affected by flooding and storm damage. A combination of a high spring tide and a severe European windstorm caused a storm tide. In combination with a tidal surge of the North Sea the water level locally exceeded 5.6 metres above mean sea level. The flood and waves overwhelmed sea defences and caused extensive flooding. It is usually the failure of levee and subsidence, degradation by use, collapse of part of sea berm, beach scour and defence barriers that lead to slip and slump wash, flows and inundation; much of the land was below the level of tide and the same events happened in the Boscastle landslide and the Lynton and Lynmouth 1952, Severn levee over spill 1972 December, Mississippi 1993, New Orleans, as opposed to a flood incident in Mozambique in 2000, in which the area was somewhat protected by its long river coast. In the North Sea Flood, the highland and plain formed floods could not drain out as a result of such negative conditions, given that it only requires a slight over spill to gradually flood a basin. Officially, 1,835 people were killed in the Netherlands, mostly in the south-western province of Zeeland. 307 were killed in the United Kingdom, in the counties of Lincolnsh...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=138551