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Tech failure nearly caused massive flood in Amsterdam
Amsterdam city center narrowly avoided a massive flood due to a tech failure that opened the seven sluice gates in IJmuiden that normally keep the North Sea water out of the Netherlands. For around two hours on November 2, billions of liters of North Sea water flowed toward Amsterdam unnoticed.
Amsterdam city center narrowly avoided a massive flood due to a tech failure that opened the seven sluice gates in IJmuiden that normally keep the North Sea water out of the Netherlands. Storm Ciarán battered the Noord-Holland coast with strong winds and high water levels that night, but ships still passed through the locks at IJmuiden. Almost two hours later, at 5:45 a.m., Rijkswaterstaat operating staff noticed that the water level in the North Sea Canal was about 20 centimeters higher than normal.
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