We're keeping these pages as a historical document. They aren't updated anymore Last week of february 1995

Water levels are down to normal.
The 240.000 people who were evacuated from the low-lands have long returned home.
Luckily non off the major dikes burst causing serious floods.
The areas that did flood also experienced flooding in 1993

These pages give a good report of the floods in The Netherlands from february 3 1995 to february 6 1995.

Friday february 3rd 1995

LATEST NEWS ON THE FLOODING IN THE NETHERLANDS

General report, link to latest news at the bottom of this page Over 200,000 people have been evacuated because of risks of waterfloods in the Netherlands. Although the water level is dropping now, the danger of dyke breaches has not passed.

The national government is now in charge of the evacuation. Roads are closed and the army is checking homes for people who stayed behind, they are also guarding the affected areas to prevent looting.

So far three people have died.

The public is being informed by the media and public and local authorities. Special telephone numbers are available for every region. These phone numbers are published in the local media.

The national telecommunications company: PTT-Telecom has advised not to make telephone calls to the endangered area's, unless absolutely necessary, in order to prevent overloadeded telephone networks. An extra communications network between the crisis centers has been set up.