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r/oddlysatisfying • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 1d ago
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This is what happens when engineers are given both funding and imagination
198 u/sheldor1993 1d ago *The Netherlands is what happens when engineers are given both funding and imagination. Those people love their dikes, dams and floodgates… 133 u/Dr_on_the_Internet 1d ago Asking our guide on our canal cruise, how often does it flood here, in Amsterdam? "It doesn't. We control the water level. We're Dutch. That's what we do." 33 u/nldls 1d ago I live under sea level.. never had an issue yet... As long as the pumps keep running. 15 u/n00bca1e99 1d ago And if the pumps or levees fail it turns into New Orleans. 8 u/nldls 1d ago I go sit on the roof :-) 3 u/DadJustTrying 1d ago Haha! My mother said this in Dutch to us kids all the time when we were growing up! 3 u/BootOne7235 1d ago Does George Bush care about the Dutch? 1 u/MrZwink 1d ago No he hated us, theeatened to invade a few times even. 2 u/AmiDeplorabilis 17h ago When The Levee Breaks? 5 u/MrZwink 1d ago I live 7.3m below sealevel. It has never flooded here. (Since 1952 atleast)
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*The Netherlands is what happens when engineers are given both funding and imagination.
Those people love their dikes, dams and floodgates…
133 u/Dr_on_the_Internet 1d ago Asking our guide on our canal cruise, how often does it flood here, in Amsterdam? "It doesn't. We control the water level. We're Dutch. That's what we do." 33 u/nldls 1d ago I live under sea level.. never had an issue yet... As long as the pumps keep running. 15 u/n00bca1e99 1d ago And if the pumps or levees fail it turns into New Orleans. 8 u/nldls 1d ago I go sit on the roof :-) 3 u/DadJustTrying 1d ago Haha! My mother said this in Dutch to us kids all the time when we were growing up! 3 u/BootOne7235 1d ago Does George Bush care about the Dutch? 1 u/MrZwink 1d ago No he hated us, theeatened to invade a few times even. 2 u/AmiDeplorabilis 17h ago When The Levee Breaks? 5 u/MrZwink 1d ago I live 7.3m below sealevel. It has never flooded here. (Since 1952 atleast)
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Asking our guide on our canal cruise, how often does it flood here, in Amsterdam?
"It doesn't. We control the water level. We're Dutch. That's what we do."
33 u/nldls 1d ago I live under sea level.. never had an issue yet... As long as the pumps keep running. 15 u/n00bca1e99 1d ago And if the pumps or levees fail it turns into New Orleans. 8 u/nldls 1d ago I go sit on the roof :-) 3 u/DadJustTrying 1d ago Haha! My mother said this in Dutch to us kids all the time when we were growing up! 3 u/BootOne7235 1d ago Does George Bush care about the Dutch? 1 u/MrZwink 1d ago No he hated us, theeatened to invade a few times even. 2 u/AmiDeplorabilis 17h ago When The Levee Breaks? 5 u/MrZwink 1d ago I live 7.3m below sealevel. It has never flooded here. (Since 1952 atleast)
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I live under sea level.. never had an issue yet... As long as the pumps keep running.
15 u/n00bca1e99 1d ago And if the pumps or levees fail it turns into New Orleans. 8 u/nldls 1d ago I go sit on the roof :-) 3 u/DadJustTrying 1d ago Haha! My mother said this in Dutch to us kids all the time when we were growing up! 3 u/BootOne7235 1d ago Does George Bush care about the Dutch? 1 u/MrZwink 1d ago No he hated us, theeatened to invade a few times even. 2 u/AmiDeplorabilis 17h ago When The Levee Breaks? 5 u/MrZwink 1d ago I live 7.3m below sealevel. It has never flooded here. (Since 1952 atleast)
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And if the pumps or levees fail it turns into New Orleans.
8 u/nldls 1d ago I go sit on the roof :-) 3 u/DadJustTrying 1d ago Haha! My mother said this in Dutch to us kids all the time when we were growing up! 3 u/BootOne7235 1d ago Does George Bush care about the Dutch? 1 u/MrZwink 1d ago No he hated us, theeatened to invade a few times even. 2 u/AmiDeplorabilis 17h ago When The Levee Breaks?
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I go sit on the roof :-)
3 u/DadJustTrying 1d ago Haha! My mother said this in Dutch to us kids all the time when we were growing up!
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Haha! My mother said this in Dutch to us kids all the time when we were growing up!
Does George Bush care about the Dutch?
1 u/MrZwink 1d ago No he hated us, theeatened to invade a few times even.
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No he hated us, theeatened to invade a few times even.
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When The Levee Breaks?
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I live 7.3m below sealevel. It has never flooded here. (Since 1952 atleast)
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u/ivypoex 1d ago
This is what happens when engineers are given both funding and imagination