My dad worked as an engineer on the Oosterscheldekering, I spent my childhood rampaging around on Neeltje Jans (the work island); saw the pillars being built, saw the mats being constructed, saw all the special vessels they had. Good times!

Dutch directness suits you. Let's be honest: sometimes it's necessary. Btw I think it's great you respect Fair Use so I don't get to feel like I'm watching someone being uncreative/lazy while stealing other creator's content. Keep up the good work Charlie!

Good for you Charlie for putting your oponion in about those that complain about you talking/reacting while watching video's

Hi Charley. I was born 1 year after the flood of 1953. My cradle stood,but 1,5 miles from the lowest point in the Netherlands. I lived there all my life. A few years back we got the notice that the house of me and my husband would be demolished and we had to move. Climate change with rising sealevels made us decide to move to the eastern part of the Netherlands. If we have to move, move to higher ground, we thought… Now we live in a region that lies 6 meters ABOVE sealevel. In a tower on the 9th floor. 😊 In Zuid-Holland we lived just meters away from the Hollandse IJssel river, but since last year we lived but meters away from the Gelderse IJssel. Rijswaterstaat is a great organization with many motivated people. But nature does its own thing. I feel much safer now. Thanks for diving into our country’s history.

Beautifully made, the camerawork, the sound, its really well made. Such care to how it looks. Awesome.

It's fun to see you picking out the English phrases used by Dutch speakers. Many people increasingly use English phrases instead of Dutch ones. Example: He could've said "het is een hels karwei" instead of "it's a hell of a job"

I live in Den Haag/The Hague and when I ride on my road bike in the weekend I regularly go to the Maaslantkering, the big white structure in the beginning of the video. It does not fail to impress me every time I'm there. The road there btw is perfect for cycling next to the big canal, it is an amazingly beautiful spot

It's great that you are so honest and that you do a good job of telling and finding things about the Netherlands

When I was young I also worked here on the Neeltje Jans, I worked on the first bridge section that was on the mainland, I worked there for six months and did all kinds of work to fill my day, I started at 8:00 AM, but to get there from my house I left at 7:00 AM by car and at 4:00 PM we went back home to be there again at 6:00 PM, because of the crowds on the road it took so long. I enjoyed working there, during this period I ate 14 sandwiches and 4 cups of coffee a day. It was the experience of a lifetime working here. greetings from South Holland

There are special people who spectate the dijken all year long. I live in Zeeland and the dijk along my little village was done again around 4 years ago. Our region was hit in 1953. There is still damp in the walls. The street I grew up in was almost all gone in 1953

People saying you pause too much? lol! Its a reaction channel, what do they expect? I think the watch > pause > react ratio is perfect ;)

15:25 Queen Juliana is the grandmother of our current king - she was succeeded by Queen Beatrix (her daughter) who was succeeded by her son, our current king, Willem-Alexander :)

The 2 joints of the Maeslandkering are Ball-joints with a diameter of 8 metres . The construction of each arm is as big as the Eiffeltower rotating at the top . At the bottom of the waterway is a huge concrete threshold preventing erosion under the barrier .

Great another one on our stormvloedkering. ❤❤ Keep up your great work, hope to see you in The Netherlands in the future. 👍👍👍 Love your reactions by the way👍👍, and indeed to people who don't like that, just go to the original video. 😂😂😂 I think Anthony is youtube ready so to see. 😁😁😁👍👍

Amazing video Charlie! Until 2004 Rotterdam had the biggest port in the world, but it was surpassed by Singapore. And yes it still is the biggest in Europe. By the way, I love that 70s look in the background. With the wooden walls and what not. I myself have a 70's interior too ;)

I live in Krimpen aan den IJssel where the stormbarrier is in the Hollandse-IJssel build in 1954-1958, I live 15 feet belowe sea level. Greetings from the Netherlands.

Yes Charlie we have a kingdom ' Het Konkrijk der Nederlanden' our current king is koning Willem Alexander and his wife is queen Maxima, just for your info. Politicly they don't have much influence.

A little Dutch directness that you pull off very well Charlie;-) Please come and join the Lower lands! LOL

The seaside is save, but rivers are still a problem when there comes to much meltingwater from the apls, moslty the maas-river.

My dad worked on the electricity for the maeslandkering. He is very proud of the work the whole team has done on that. As I was a little girl we would often drive through the harbour area, and he would point out all of these interesting things that make us safer. There is so much pride that comes with working those jobs, I don't think it's possible that they forget about the dangers the water brings.

21:53 what you thought was rotterdam was just the port of rotterdam 😅

There's a poem engraved in one of those things that kind of sums it up. It reads "Hier gaan over het tij: de wind, de maan, en wij". It roughly translates to "Here the tide is ruled; by the wind, the moon, and us."

The dikes have sometimes a little issue with heavy rains and storms, but they are in very good condition and taken well care off. There are no issues with the Haringvliet or any other part of the Deltawerken . The mechanics are tested twice every year .

Rijkswaterstaat is a government execution agency of the Dutch ministry of infrastructure and water state responsible for (amongst other things) managing and developing main highways and main waterways. It literally translates to 'the realms water situation'.

Beautiful video, great reaction video Charlie *love the bigger video screen, i hope you keep that* 👍❤

The storm of February 1953 was a turning point. It was a storm and a certain combination of factors: wind and high tide and the way the moon was (causing the high tide). It was a horror scenario that could not be predicted. Take one factor out and nothing was happened. After the storm the decision was made to protect the country against that ever happening again. That became the Deltaworks. Today we are safe, but a new danger is putting the head up: rising of the sea water level, caused by the warming up of the earth. And that is a new challenge for The Netherlands: how to keep out feet dry.

All kids in school should mandatory watch an movie/video every couple of years that talks about what happend in 1953,the raw honest trueth,what they did to prevent a next time and what is needed to stay safe for years to come.

I love how much you know about our polders! Good job educating yourself.

Yes the Netherlands is a kingdom. Rijkswaterstaat which is the Directorate General for Public Works and Water Management. Yes Rotterdam was the largest harbour in the world, until it was surpassed by 5 Chinese ports in volume. On the @21:31 mark, you can see Rotterdam about middle of the map. Every harbour you see is Rotterdam, stretching all the way to the sea. On the North side of the Nieuwe Waterweg are a few cities inbetween like Schiedam, Vlaardingen en Maassluis, but the start of the Red line is Hook of Holland, which is part of Rotterdam as well. on the Southside of the waterweg it's all Rotterdam, to bottom of the red line.

The maintenance of the hartelkering on which they tore down te Gates and no back up plan whas done during the summer. Storm season when we could need to use the barier is in winter so that maintenance whas done during the ‘safe’ time of the year. Afcourse its stil a bit scary for the people that could be affected when somehow this time is different and disaster strikes during that time. But in the end we could not just deside not to do maintenance because of the what if. It would be a recepy for disaster in future.

You are in for a historical treat Charlie! Check out the history of this family... starting with the famous William the Silent, Prince of Orange and Stadthouder. Born nearly 500 years ago he set in motion the wheels to Dutch independence from Spain. His descendant on the throne today is King Willem-Alexander. The Netherlands official title is: Koninkrijk der Nederlanden / Kingdom of the Netherlands. I like your enquiring mind and comments.

that was what she was telling you, she explained her feelings, and her realisations when the water rose. Not a real question, just what goes round in your mind at that specific moment.

Welcome back Charlie and hey Anthony! I heard your train of thought about problem thinking and it’s a fair assessment, but we dutch people only think in solutions, maybe that’s why we are good in what we do. I noticed myself because I’m living abroad, but sometimes people here get stuck in the problem it self, that they don’t look to any viable solution.

Its a mariphone rijkswaterstaat is broadcasting on channel 10 and 16 to inform maritim traffic on important stuff

Thanks to these workers at the waterkeringen I still have dry feet.

Thank you for posting this. Key in everything is maintenance. Whenever you privatize such a project maintenance is the first to go as wel as security.

Rijkswaterstaat is the governmental branch that focuses purely on water manegement in the country. Together with local/provincial management. There are several ‘water boards’ that control sluisses/dikes the level of groundwater. The Netherlands is a constitutional monarchy with a democraticly chosen parlement. The role of the king/queen is mostly ceremonial but they did have more power in the past. The king mostly does goodwill and trade in foreign countries. They do however still confide and advice the minister. They also adress the country yearly.

21:30 the area you highlighted first is about half the port of Rotterdam Everywhere where you see the water branch off from the river is the port. and on the right side of that, where you guessed Dordrecht would be, is Rotterdam city.

The spinnning thing is a radar, that's part of the system used to guide ships around safely

Loving the reacts. I agree, anyone complaining about the pauses shouldn't watch a react channel.

That piece between the rivers you asked about is Rotterdam harbour, above the rivers is Rotterdam city :)

The storm of 1953 and the flooding are still taught in schools in the Netherlands :)

We maintain our dijken and sluisen and other flood-resisting waterworks very well Charlie, bumb Dutch folks are plentiful who dont care to know how safe they are. Those folks don't know what they are talking about, ooh scary ooh code yellow/ orange/ red whoooo scary and the storm has a name whooo scary. NOT a storm in a teacup does not deserve such upheaval, I live in Lelystad Flevoland at approx. 16 below NAP/ Sea level. I remember my the 1st November storm, windpower 12+., No code then back in 1972, but if it had it would have been code purple. The dijken were then still untested by a real real heavy heavy storm back then, ppl had inflatable boats in the attic with lifejackets etcv. Food etc. . Trees were blown down, roofs blew away trucks tipped over, you get the point Im sure. We just lived 4 months in Lelystad, we had some tense moments back then, but the dijken stood tall yeah water blew over them in waves but nothing dangerous tho. Ppl weren't allowed to go into the polder, nor could get out. So Im pretty sure while the whole Dutch anti-flood systems were improved from then on, it would take a tsunami of the mega kind to do some damage. ""Glod created the world, but the Dutch created the Netherlands"" we are safe as safe can be really, we have ""high"" taxes for a reason LOL Our infrastructure is very well maintained and updated regularly, f.e. find me a pothole older than a month, don't even bother there are none to be found LOL This is'nt Americav(sorry but it is what it is) you are worse off than us in our Koudekikkerlandje (Cold-frog-small-country) we have mastered the art of keeping our feet dry, and or built on created higher land (Terpen) near flood areas that are there to give the water somewhere to flow and yes that's mostly farm-land next to rivers. Anywho no real dangerous crap happened, since mid-1990 we had to bail out a few polders in the south Rijn, Maas etc. from the risk of dijk breakage. But the only nearly gave way, ppl were safe, I a.m.m more ppl came to help those out. That's something I'm, proud about. We thousands upon thousands got there and helped those ppl move their stuff up to the attics., total strangers helping total strangers. The traffic jam it caused was epic, from Almere to Grokum it took us about 5 hours. but Ppl had Coffee., sandwiches etc., and shared them with strangers and ppl were patient, happy, it was a blast. But going into the polder was scary, getting out as almost the last at 24. hrs with a police escort was undescribably surreal. We got back at 1.30 hrs.. and then had to store stuff we transported out of Gorkum. We got the next day off from our employers, yeah proud of my fwellow countrymen and women who selflessly did that to help out others. That generation did what was needed, without any official planning or anything needed, we just did what was needed. Hope the young uns will do that too when push comes to shove when needed. Just like in 1953 ppl stood up and got to do what was needed. We Dutch are a strange bunch LOL

21:38 - the bit in the middle (between the two river arms) is the maasvlakte 1 and 2, and connected east to the rest of the port of rotterdam. Basically the whole cement colored bit in the middle is the port. The town north is "Hoek van Holland", often seen in English as "Hook of Holland" although I dare say the actual translation should be "corner of holland" (because it is the south-western most corner of the province of south holland).

@21.50 the part you point is only the seaport/harbour of Rotterdam… more to the right is the city of Rotterdam (where point as Dordrecht)

You're correct we often tend to intermix English into our Dutch especially in Management or Sales situations but through all layers of life. Like the 'One of a kind' and 'Hell of a job' phrases you heard.

Hahaha. I like your direct reaction about the reactions of to many stops. You could be Dutch ;-). Just egnour it. Tip of me,

I think they took those two cylinders off (or out?) during end of spring or summer, so out of the storm season.

Those big doors are hollow, and are filled with water to settle them in their beds. to close it off completely.

Well the tube in inflated and lies at the bottom of the river... and this is one of kind machine...

Dat spinning ding is ee n radar voor de scheepvaart.

it is not about fish only but about an entire sea biotope that otherwise would have been destroyed.

Hey charlie, last month was the first time ever.! All 6 deltawerken had too close.! For a heavy storm. And we lost no sleep at all.. 😊

Imagine this was all done way BEFORE computers were really usefull.

The Dutch are the masters of water, we don't need anybody telling us how or what. We are asked by many countries to help with their water problems...

De Reest is a tiny brook/river, on the border of Drenthe and Overijssel..., in the wild wild east, this water is rain water coming down from higher grounds , it is far from the sea. A Terp is an artificial flood mount

It's telling that our engineers were asked to help with the water after hurricane Catherina. 😊

Its fascinating that you know so much of the Netherlands, saw a lot of videos but somehow managed to avoid any video that mentions the Dutch royal family, yet 😅

The Netherlands are a constitutional monarchy, just like for example Canada. The King has no power what so ever, but is the head of state. His profession is ... water, handling the things Rijkswaterstaat is all about. He studied this subject. And he is a licensed pilot.

with the latest predictions for sea-level rise we (the dutch) will have to raise the sea dikes and storm flood protection with at least 3 meters to be save for the next 100 years , that sounds like a long time but it is not. Realization would take about 50 years. so that would be just in time. they will have to start in the next 10 years. (same is true for the uk and probably denmark)

That spinning thing is a radar.

Was enjoying this a ton. keep it up

There are lot's of problems in Holland,for some i shame myself.But these super wonders of the world keep me focus on the things i'm proud of.

Yep, we're still a real Kingdom. We had Queen Beatrix during my youth, then she abdicated, and handed the throne to her son, Prince (now King) Willem Alexander. (and lots more names.) He married an Argentinian lady, (now Queen Maxima) and they had three daughters. Amalia, Alexia and Ariane. Personally, I think that Argentinian blood saved our Kingdom from death by boredome. (she has serious spunk)

21:30. On that map, the large white blob near the coast just above the artificial landmass sticking out into the North Sea, is Hoek van Holland and other smaller towns like Monster, Naaldwijk. All the white and grey roofs are in fact megalarge glass greenhouses. The landmass below that with all the areas cut out (looking a bit like airport terminals) is the Rotterdam harbours extending all the way inland to Rotterdam itself, which is the darker grey area surrounding the roughly the most inland part of the harbours. Where you see the most eastern harbour shaped a bit like an upside down tree. Along the northern side of the harbour going west from Rotterdam there's Schiedam and Vlaardingen. So the parts you were pointing at is all harbour and greenhouses. Rotterdam is further to the east more inland. Where you pointed for Dordrecht, is in fact Rotterdam.

We have a king right now, the oldest child gets the title and our king only has daughters so we'll have a queen next. There were 3 queens in a row before our king, Wilhelmina, Juliana, Beatrix and now we have king Willem.

The Netherlands have his dijks also from the future tree meters schaven because the see leveal

If some phrase sounds english (like "one of a kind", it probably is). Idk if it's being online or our English improving, but when we can't remember a phrase in Dutch, we use the English ones. If I forget something,I always go searching for the Dutch phrase afterwards.

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Waterstaat is de toestand van het water ten opzichte van het land of de activiteiten van de overheid gericht op bescherming tegen het water en het geschikt maken en beheren van het water voor menselijk gebruik.

The Netherlands have King Willem Alexander and Queen Máxima.

What a sweet kid you have!

The 700 km shore that is shortened is only in the south I believe, the Zuiderzee/Ijsselmeer was not included in this number. And you talked about the fishes, it is not about a few, it is about wholes populations of certain species. And offcourse it is all built for our safety (not mine actually, live far up north), but that doesn't mean we can't look for ways of also let those fish species thrive.

Storms happen in winter or autumn most of the time and you know when it is full Moon/new Moon too...(spring tides).

I’ve seen the Delta works being built from when I was a little child. It was very impressive to walk by the pillars of the Oosterscheldekering being built in the dry docks to the height of a 12 story building and then shipped to their exact place in the delta, on centimeter accuracy level. Before the days of GPS. I was there again last year with family from Hungary and I can assure you, all these sea barriers are maintained top notch. We can’t afford not to … They’re all tested on a regular schedule And I’m with you, if people don’t like comments they should watch the original video. But I do like your comments so much that I’d rather watch your comment video than the original … All that you pointed out in the video is just a part of the port of Rotterdam, the city lies more inland. And Dordrecht even farther inland. I believe I saw in a video the other day that the port of Rotterdam is more than twice the size of Manhattan to give a clue I really love to hear and see how you’ve dive’d into the history of the Zuiderzeepolders! Shout out for you! The map was a planned map indeed, you correctly pointed out the polder that wasn’t realised. It’s now a nature reserve with a few man made islands where nobody lives. All the other polders on the map are realised though Those big black tubes of the Ramspolkering are only visible in emergency situations; I wouldn’t mind the look of them if they keep me safe in times of high waters though … Greetings and hugs for you all and especially that cute little boy, from The Netherlands!

Nooo, they know the sluices work, but some people ask themself if they work. Be sure they are tested and well maintained !

Hahahaha, nope that's not me Charlie 🤣 That would be way to stressfull of a job for me also! 😝

Great video.

Hi, Anthony. Nice to meet you.

No, the dikes never colapsed since 1953, sometimes a bit spill out inland

Ramspol is a channel inbetween two polders, ugly a can be, artificial , so the tube does the job and protects the old cities upstream, Vollernhove, Blokzijl, Zwolle, etc... hellofajob is english yep...we use a lot of french/englisg/german/yiddish and malay words ..just like 50% of modern English is french :)

Dicht, old english : tight, closed. sluiten to close off / lock.

if u want to say van der poel in with your american accent keep in mind ''oe'' sounds like ''oo'' in your country and ''van'' you should use the ''a'' from (a)ccelerate, your ''a'' sounds like an ''e''

The only reason i really feel save is because i live above sealevel in the netherlands. More towards the inland side.

Don't worry you're doing well.

The dna off the Dutch.

At the start of this video they had closed the Haringvlietsluit because of Storm Ciarán.

poel = pool, van der = of the. Rijks water staat , the situation of the water in the kingdom, water statutes in the kinddom. /Realm. Bureau voor den Waterstaat, formerly translated to Directorate General for Public Works and Water Management.

Sometimes when we (Dutch people) talk we put an English word or sentence in between. I dunno why but even I do that.

We are a kingdom since 1815. It was forced upon us. We were a republic before, since 1588.

You already know quite a lot about the Netherlands. Such as the polders, which have and have not been built. Greetings from Spakenburg, Netherlands. #spakenburg

The River Rhine is an international waterway, can't charge for that, if we would, what would stop Germany etc from doing the same. That would be like the middle ages... Making international trade, our bread and butter as a country impossible.. Using docs in Rotterdam does cost money naturally, And we make money through the harbour..etc..

Hey, thats where i live 2:57

Like the things you give attention

Rotterdam -Delft- den Haag, these cities are connected, parts of Rotterdam are 6.72 meters below sea level...

Some 1850 casualties on a total of about 10M is a lot bigger than some 3k casualties at 9/11 on more than 300M Americans. Are we allowed to remember after 70y?

You have already reacted to several videos that mentioned the royal family and/or the kingdom. How did you forget?

Haring vliet - herring fleet an old arm of the sea, the big rivers are connected to the sea through this arm, now the new dikes have closed off these arms.. vliet = stream from vlieden - to flow...Trying to go to the roots of the words.. as always.. In dutch we tend to make make long words out of several words...

Now i believe Rotterdam is surpassed by 6 Chinese ports.

Don't worry Charlie, the young Dutch people DO realise how important our stormvloetkeringen zijn. There will nèver be a lack of maintenance! It's in every person's blood to know how important our dijks and stormvloetkeringen are. It will be there for ever!!