Alfons notes that there was a serious dike burst in the centre part of the Netherlands (link to RNW). 2,000 people were evacutated and luckily nobody was injured. However, Alfons notes something weird in a national newspaper:
“and one of the responses of the inhabitants struck me as a sign of the time. She complained something like: It wasn’t even mentioned on TV, so I thought it wasn’t that serious.”
Nowadays, I normally think that news shown on CNN is hardly worth watching or even being mentioned.