Watersnood, 1953 (Alt)
Flood '53, coloured image still of black-and-white video, 2011, creator: Anton Withagen; source: Internet Archive, http://archive.org/details/Flood53, Creative Commons 1.0 Universal, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/.
The storm flood of 1953 referred to in the Netherlands as the Watersnood is considered one of the worst flood disasters of the 20th century. In Belgium, Great Britain and particularly in the Netherlands, it claimed around 2,000 human lives in total.
Flood '53, coloured image still of black-and-white video, 2011, creator: Anton Withagen; source: Internet Archive, http://archive.org/details/Flood53, Creative Commons 1.0 Universal, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/.