"No one is criticizing them nor did anyone make those kinds of remarks when the Dutch suffered catastrophic flooding from the North sea in the 1950s."
Yes, but in this case NO has been sitting on a ticking time bomb for decades, knowing it full well, and they haven't been willing to do anything significant about it. They have wanted the federal gov't to come in and fix the situation instead of doing it for themselves.
I understand why NO is there and I have no problem with them rebuilding but I want to know why they didn't maintain the levees better. I heard that they had sunk by many feet. Why aren't they constantly kept up?