Grote Mandrenke: The Great Drowning of Men

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  @RobinMarks1313 · 3 years ago (edited)

  "...  lop-sided shacks, uneven boards, a biting wind, the mocking bray of gulls, and a constant, inescapable damp." sounds delightful.

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  @raquellofstedt9713 · 3 years ago

  Arcticstorm Gudrun was an extra tropical cyclon. We lost all our old growth forest on our farm. human deaths were very low, and for that we are still very gratefull, but it sounded as if a feighttrain was bearing down on our house for eight hours, and we didn´t get our power back for a week. most places around us didn´t get power back for six weeks. It was like being blown back to the 1800´s.

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  @RayyMusik · 3 years ago (edited)

  My ancestors lived on the German North Sea coast, and thus I was well familiar with the impact of the Marcellus flood there. Besides Rungholt six other villages and the entire island of Nordstrand vanished. What I was not aware of was the impact on the Netherlands, Denmark, and even England. Thanks for this lesson, Sir.

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• AL

  @allanlank · 3 years ago

  "...don't all good stories involve pirates." Yes they do. [feed the algorithm]

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• BR

  @bryanparkhurst17 · 3 years ago

  I've been watching you for quite some time now and I have to tell you, I love the little Easter eggs of the English language that you insert into your monologues. I love it when you all the sudden have a lightbulb go off in your head as to an expression you've been saying all of your life and you find out where it came from.

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• OR

  @OriginalMrG_inMadCity · 3 years ago

  Humanity builds. Nature laughs.

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• AN

  @AndreasMadsen · 3 years ago

  In the news today: archaeologist have discovered the remains of the a church is the city for Rungholt, wish as you mention, was swept away but the 1362 flood. In Denmark we call it "Den Store Manddrukning" - The Great Mandrowning

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• RI

  @richardfabacher3705 · 3 years ago

  Am I the only one giggling while visualizing Jim Cantore looking out on a medieval North Sea Storm? I think I might need therapy.

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• HP

  @hpk31 · 3 years ago (edited)

  I grew up on the island of Föhr which was part of the Rungholt area.<br>At low tide the outline of the old coastline is very apparent from the air.

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  @johnstevenson9956 · 3 years ago

  The study of Dunwich is fascinating, as the last little bits of it are still falling into the sea.

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• WI

  @williammurray1341 · 3 years ago

  &quot;There is no endeavor of humanity that cannot be undone by the power of nature.&quot; Something that many refuse to understand; believing instead that humanity can control the weather.

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  @conormcmenemie5126 · 3 years ago

  The sun shines and the rain falls upon the just and the unjust alike. Your narrative has risen to new peaks.

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