North Sea Flood Kills Thousands from Holland to Jutland
The water didn't recede. It swallowed entire villages whole. The All Saints' Flood of 1570 — named for the feast day it struck — sent walls of North Sea water crashing across Holland, Friesland, and up through Jutland, erasing communities that had stood for generations. Fishermen, farmers, children. Gone in hours. Some estimates push the death toll far beyond 1,000. And here's the part nobody mentions: this same coastline had flooded before. It would flood again. The Dutch didn't retreat. They built higher, dug deeper, and eventually learned to live *inside* the sea.
November 2, 1570
456 years ago
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