[frogjerk]

I do not know the answer to this question buy has anything even close to a Category 5 Hurricane ever hit The Netherlands?

[Cap Huff]

In the Dutch news the other day there was something about Katrina being about 4 or 5 times as powerful as anything that has ever hit The Netherlands.

Nevertheless, they have had some devastating storms. A storm surge in February 1953 overwhelmed the old dyke system and killed well over a thousand people. I've seen an old photo of the house that I'm currently living in with about three feet of water surrounding it. The water level was higher in the neighboring village.

[dirtboy]

has anything even close to a Category 5 Hurricane ever hit The Netherlands?

They've gotten some pretty nasty winter storms off the North Sea, comparable to our N'easters - and those have caused them severe problems at times. But even the worst N'easter can't compare to Cat 5 storm surge. The Halloween storm battered homes along the immediate cost. But it didn't send 30 feet of water a half-mile inland.

[dts32041]

Yeah 1940 it was called the Wehrmacht.

[js1138]

I do not know the answer to this question buy has anything even close to a Category 5 Hurricane ever hit The Netherlands?

Try 1953.