{"id":5193,"date":"2017-09-24T10:31:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T10:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=5193"},"modified":"2017-09-22T10:33:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T10:33:33","slug":"natural-disasters-in-dutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/natural-disasters-in-dutch\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading About Natural Disasters in Dutch"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems that lately, North and South America have been suffering terrible tragedies from hurricanes and earthquakes. There has been plenty of coverage in the Netherlands about this with a lot of new vocabulary that might make it confusing to understand. This is why I have come up with this quick summary of some of the natural disasters happening and related vocabulary.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Kabsik Park found on Flickr.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Orkaan Harvey, Irma en Maria<\/h3>\n

The Atlantic Ocean has been suffering an unusual hurricane season this year. It started with\u00a0Orkaan\u00a0<\/em>Harvey that devastated the Caribbean islands as well as the coast of Texas with Houston being the most notable city. The hurricane hit Houston as a category 4 hurricane (kracht 4)\u00a0<\/em>and left the city\u00a0onder water.\u00a0<\/em>The damage done to Texas has been called\u00a0onge\u00ebvenaarde catastrofe\u00a0<\/em>or unrivaled catastrophe.<\/p>\n

You can read more about this in this article by the Volkskrant.<\/a><\/p>\n

After Harvey, the Dutch Antilles suffered tremendous\u00a0schade\u00a0<\/em>or damage from Hurricane Irma. Right after the hurricane hit, Sint-Maarten remained without communication because of the severe damage to infrastructure. King Willem Alexander traveled to the islands to assess the damage and commented that he had never seen that degree of damage. The following video shows more of his visit to the islands.<\/p>\n