{"id":1655,"date":"2007-11-10T00:55:56","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T03:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2007-11-10T12:19:51","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T15:19:51","slug":"dike-1-dike-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1655","title":{"rendered":"Dike 1. Dike 2."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">Y<\/span>esterday <a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1657' rel='attachment wp-att-1657' title='Water level at Harlingen, 11\/09\/07'><img class=\"alignright\" src='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/sine_curve_harlingen.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Water level at Harlingen, 11\/09\/07' \/><\/a>portions of Western Europe were on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/7086175.stm\">storm watch<\/a>: A strong North <strike>Eastern<\/strike> Western wind and the right (rather wrong) tide caused water levels to rise abnormally.\n<\/p>\n<p>My civil engineering background was the reason for looking for tidal information at the regular &#8216;peil stations&#8217; (water level stations): this information is actually harder to find than usual because the Dutch national organization that is in charge of the nations water defences, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rijkswaterstaat.nl\/\">an extremely awkward web site<\/a> (Rijkswaterstaat) where the actual tidal data is hard to find. It&#8217;s your lucky day, though: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actuelewaterdata.nl\/waterstand\/\">I did this for you<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>That brings me back to that picture above: Obviously, the water level at Harlingen reached a height of 3.20 meters, which is over 2 meters than normal (if I&#8217;m not wrong, Harlingen reported the highest recorded water levels). Official reports dryly mention that the dikes apparent held nationwide.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small><strong>update:<\/strong> CBC report on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/world\/story\/2007\/11\/08\/tidal-uk.html\">storm surge<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday portions of Western Europe were on storm watch: A strong North Eastern Western wind and the right (rather wrong) tide caused water levels to rise abnormally. My civil engineering background was the reason for looking for tidal information at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1655\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[108,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}