Grote Mandrenke: The Great Drowning of Men

Today the news is full of reports about things like “bomb cyclones” and “atmospheric rivers,” but as terrifying as these meteorological mouthfuls are, they hardly represent the terror of the 1362 Grote Mandrenke, literally, “the Great Drowning of men.”
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[@squirt.mcgirt]

As a pilot I've studied weather extensively and it still always blows my mind how new the science of weather is. We had a fully mechanized world war with airplanes and chemical weapons before we knew what a weather front is. Insane.

[@lanesaarloos281]

Yes but, aviation advances in planes and radars for war sped the understanding of weather..

[@dbadaddy7386]

And this is why we simply do not know enough to make massive policy changes because of climate change. We've only had reasonably reliable data collection on a world-wide basis for about 200 years. While there are a lot of little things we can and should do, we just don't know enough to justify large-scale policies. But no politician will get votes by pointing that out, and you sure won't get donations by saying we need to chill until we know what we are talking about. That's not a do-nothing or denier attitude, it's a let's not irrevocably screw things up out of ignorance attitude.

[@SoloRenegade]

and in WW2, the planet was warmer than it is now.

[@vbscript2]

@@dbadaddy7386 Even 200 years is an overestimation for most of the world. It's about right for the Eastern U.S. and Western Europe, but, for much of the world, it wasn't until the late 1800s or early 1900s that significant record-keeping began. And for even more of the world - especially the parts that are mostly ocean - reliable data collection didn't begin until the age of weather satellites - in the 1970s and beyond, only around 50 years ago. For flight in particular, it's especially interesting to note that microbursts weren't even discovered until 1978 and not fully accepted, let alone prepared for, until the 1980s. I'm a millennial and it was *during my lifetime* when much of the research and planning was done for how to deal with microbursts in aviation.

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@@dbadaddy7386 The climate changes all the time. The WOMD we face is GEOENGINEERING. MAN-MADE, MOST LIKELY MADE IN USA. US granted amnesty to thousands of NAZIS after WW2 ended! US funded the NAZIS! US is funding the NAZIS in Ukraine - and yes, that includes Zelensky! He obviously murdered their Minister of Interior, who held that position before he was made leader of Ukraine. The Minister of Interior was probably considered a "weak link" and also opportunity to blame Russia again. I would be surprised if CIA did NOT assist them with that plane crash. CIA man Mike Pompeo purchased Thayer Aerospace from TItanic FRAUD John B Thayer III's son, John B Thayer IV, who was involved in many fraudulent deals, despite obviously getting filfthy rich from helping Bruce Ismay and JP Morgan sink and loot the rich on the Titanic.

[@RobinMarks1313]

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

[@RayyMusik]

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.

[@feldgeist2637]

6 whole parishes were wiped out around Rungholt + some more in neighbouring Harden/Counties of the Uthlande but Nord-Strand is still there, together with the western part of old Strand, Pellworm, and both are secured by massive dikes now - about 4 times higher than during the medieval period 💪 edit: apparently even more destructive on Strand alone than I thought contemporary chronicle entry translates to: "Anno 1362, on the 16th day of January, there was a great waterflood in the frisian lands, in which on the Strand 30 churches and their parishes drowned" maybe they extended the Strand region a bit ......otherwise pretty bad and really a grote Mandrenke.....

[@MrYAMAHA32177]

Gore has made billions while trying to convince us that we can!

[@LetsTalkAboutPrepping]

​@@feldgeist2637nord strand is there again* not still

[@raquellofstedt9713]

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.

[@poutinedream5066]

That sounds utterly terrifying. I'm in midwest America where the only thing that sounds like a freight train is a tornado. An 8 hour tornado- I'd still be hugging my knees, just rocking back and forth now

[@darraghmckenna9127]

My GF told me about this. It was apparently very bad in Småland, I think some of her family lost forest

[@harlanbarnhart4656]

Wow.

[@donaldchapman6161]

I live in South Florida. I worked in law enforcement for 25 years. 10 of those I was also a firefighter. I've patrolled in 100 mph winds for hours. And I thanked the Lord when it was over. Thank you for this episode. Very very well done.

[@glennllewellyn7369]

Cool to mild partly cloudy days here on the farm this summer. Australia

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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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Truly - he even managed to insert 'exerpate'. A nebulous word unaffixed by dictionary discipline, yet he managed to carry it off with aplomb.

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@@conormcmenemie5126i see what you did there…😬😁

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It's called "etymology". The study of the origins of words and phrases. As opposed to "entomology" meaning the study of insects. Etymology is really interesting and a lot of fun.

[@tonydagostino6158]

"a 75 mile wide bay with a number of extremely nervous fishing villages around it's edges" Almost spewed my coffee on that one! Your viewers might be interested in the book "The Firmament" by KZbinr Simon Clark who covers the history and basics of atmospheric science, including cyclonic circulation, in a very understandable way.

[@stevelloyd9859]

Same here. My brain said whoa whoa whoa. Not me I'm headed for the hills folks. I'll come shopping for my seafood. On occasion. Thanks but I'm out!! Off to da mountains I go.

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​@@stevelloyd9859 just be aware of bears.. and squirrels.

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[@hpk31]

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

[@richardchiriboga4424]

Fascinating history and a lesson to be learned. Of course, we usually don't learn or ignore history. Too bad. Many thanks!!

[@andrewyoung2796]

Reminds me of one he did. Greenland Farming vs fishing and changing weather. But i really dont remember I didn't really learn my history 💚

[@martijnb5887]

In case of storm surges The Netherlands does not forget. The storm of 1953 (1836 deaths in NL) was the starting point for the Deltawerken that completely changed the geography of the South West of the Netherlands.

[@stanwestervelt75]

Yes! Sad times back in those days in the Netherlands. Fortunately, we now have the situation under control thanks to the hard work of our ancestors. This episode made me realize that dry feet don't come naturally in our low lands! Thanks THG!

[@fionamcgregor4268]

1953,There was a bad storm affecting the UK and the North Sea. IIRC 1800 people died in the Netherlands. There was a good documentary on KZbin about it.

[@louisliu5638]

Pitt Poulder in BC was drained in 1905, dropped into a numbered company, and the Dutch guys then went home. Probably did this all over the world. Friends leased the hectares for cattle for years, then in the eighties it went golf course. Someone in the Netherlands is banking huge guilders from some ancestors far sighted, hard work.

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

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Then it was the wrath of god, today its the wrath of climate change. When all along it’s just weather at its extremes.

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Change "weather" to "climate" and you’ll get shit for saying the same thing lol

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Werner Herzog would approve of that message. Nature is terrifying.

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Outstanding Compilation of Historical Events As You Yourself Make History Worth Remembering

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

[@johnstevenson9956]

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

[@SIG442]

Great episode, I wouldn't mind seeing more about Friesland!

[@gnome53]

I was aware since the early '70s of the meteorological work of Vilhelm (and Jacob) Bjerknes, but did not know that his Institute was originally part of the Bergen museum. Thanks for the video and this detail!

[@allanlank]

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

[@167curly]

It's very interesting how at 5.40 in your video the "eye" of that cyclone looks so much like a human eye. I can remember seeing on British TV news footage in 1953 of Canvey Island in the Thames estuary when it was drowned by a huge storm.

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A million intricate facts in one video. Outstanding, thankyou

[@bigsarge2085]

Learned something new, thank you!

[@tgmccoy1556]

Driving along a street in a Coastal development near Gold Beach, Oregon. You look up on the bank above and see- driftwood. Meaning that the Ocean was there. and will be again.

[@1LSWilliam]

This report is stunning and so important. While 1362 A.D. was associated in my mind with a catastrophic storm I had no idea the impact on The Netherlands was so determinative geologically.Thank you! Thank you again!!

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[@pulaski1]

I wasn't so interested in the video title today, but almost immediately became fascinated as my mother is from Hull. .... But I knew nothing of the pirate port or the storm that eliminated it.

[@nandingpanelo]

You are a good man. Happy new year

[@Ritabug34]

Wow this was absolutely fascinating!

[@phillipgathright8001]

Humanity builds. Nature laughs.

[@-.Steven]

As you said so eloquently History Guy, There is no endeavor of man that can't be undone by Nature. Reminds me of a TV commercial I saw during the 2002 olympics that went something close to: when you climb to the top of the mountain, don't feel as if you've conquered the mountain, just be glad the mountain let you live. That's The Rocky Mountains for you. My wife's mother had cousins that were lost in the 1959 Hebgen lake earthquake. A young family completely covered by 50 million yards of debris. The earthquake killed 28 people in all. I've seen pictures of this young family that died in the Hebgen earthquake, it's surreal looking at their picture. Bravo History Guy for another homerun!

[@-jeff-]

An event said to have been one of the inspirations for Shakespeare's "The Tempest".

[@bretnielsen5502]

One of your best researched of your postings. I've gone through and watch every posts. BRAVO !

[@brettd3206]

I've imagined the coastal destruction that must have occurred in the past, but never knew an event was so well recorded. What if a communal village could be located on the North Sea floor atop Doggerland? Would ancient peat marshes help to locate it?

[@cherylm2C6671]

Peat mapping is a good idea, and would show potential evactuation areas for much of today's Emgland and Ireland. Weather and flooding episodes must have created population bottlenecks, if not outright extinctions. If you can map peat against methane gas maps or medical mortality maps showing pernicious air quality, you can help identify problem areas.

[@loke6664]

Possibly but we can make some guesses about Doggerland if villages and maybe even towns existed on it of course (we know some people were there hunting based on tools and likely they lived there as well but until evidence have been found of that we can only guess). Most human settlements are along a river a little bit up from the sea, and we do know where Doggerland's rivers were. Yeah, not all villages, towns and cities are placed like that but if there are a river in a reasonable distance they tend to be along it. Usually just upstream a little from the delta so those are the places I would suggest to go looking. There are also the rather opposite rivers that went through Sahara until the African wet period stopped 5000 years ago, the area is pretty war thorn so no archaeological survey have been done there but it is also a great place to look for a lost culture. The wet period ended around the time Narmer united Egypt so it isn't impossible something is there as well. Dunwich wasn't just destroyed in a single storm though, it started it but half the city survived until erosion ate it all up during a 100 years or so. There is an Expedition unknown episode when Josh Gates dives the site if you want to see more of it, it is slightly disappointing if you expect to see standing building under the water though, they all fell over when they sunk.

[@cherylm2C6671]

@@loke6664 What college are you teaching from? There's decades worth of work just in this post! This next century should be a field day for archeologists - imagine the China sea!

[@gleisbauer25]

By the way, Wikipedia list’s 3 Mandrenke, 1219, 1362 and 1634. My father survived 1962. Even today it’s possible to find bones from cattle drowned in past times on the beaches of the Elbe.

[@feldgeist2637]

moin moin, you know about this one guy from Pellworm who goes into the Watt to recover relics, human skulls included ? finding some darkened muddy skull at lowtide, decorated with mussels and barnacles would totally creep me out I'm fine with the oysters from the the former cattle grazing grounds and settlements, thanks 👌

[@cherylm2C6671]

Thank you for your comment. Thinking about the Netherlands Horse Rescue, about 16 years ago, would livestock evacuation grounds or facilities be possible in your area?

[@gleisbauer25]

@@feldgeist2637 Moin, i think I saw it once on TV. Was he the one still finding plow traces from farmers?

[@gleisbauer25]

@@cherylm2C6671 generally yes. For the normal Winter flooding outside the dykes there are often little warfs for the cattle. Of its going to be higher just bring them over the dykes (about 1km usually). No problem with today’s forecast and warning. If the dykes are going to fail it’ll probably be a huge problem since there are areas in my county about 20-30km away from the nearest high ground. Some even below sea level. I live on the high ground though.

[@feldgeist2637]

​@@gleisbauer25 yes, he appeared a few times at least on local TV.... runs a little museum on Pellworm as well.....or did - don't know if he still does and must be quite old now..... somebody should nevertheless clean up the creepy skulls ! the corner west of Nordstrand around Rungholtsand is one of my sea food foraging areas

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Thank you for pronouncing the name of my county _Yorkshire_ correctly. We Yorkshiremen get reet upset when some wassock pronounces it York-shire, or York-sheer!

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I admit I often get British place-names wrong, and if I get one right it is likely because I have gotten it wrong before and someone corrected me.

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@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Our place names are designed to trip up non-locals, and by that I mean people who live more than 20 miles away.

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If the residents of Yorkshire wish me to to pronounce it "York-sure" instead of "York-shire" then they better change the spelling.

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Really excellent episode, Lance!

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Exceptionally interesting and timely video. Enjoyed this one, thank you History Guy!

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The events you bring forth are amazing history . Thank you

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Great story, I love all the stuff I learn from you. History rocks and should never be forgotten. Thanks for doing your part to celebrate our history, great and tragic.

[@ellenbryn]

Ah, thank you! I think I mentioned a while back I was digging around in English history trying to track down a medieval storm I thought I vaguely remembered *before* the 1607 Bristol Channel Flood, which was probably also a massive storm surge although some guess tsunami. This was probably it, but of course you turned up far more info than the few broken church steeples and local flooding I'd come across in Suffolk. So much of medieval history in microcosm in that Raven's Rod town. Edward I's father Henry III had fallen afoul of Simon de Montfort who established the beginnings of parliament, calling not just clergy and barons (the nobility that Henry's father John had faced off with over Magna Carta), but also burgesses, representatives of wealthy towns like Raven's Rod. And then Edward figured out that rather than fighting with Parliament he could work with it and use it to fund his wars. So we see him dealing pragmatic with the new reality of the high middle ages, as feudalism began to make way to chartered towns and mercantilism (or more unsavory forms of goods exchange). His grandson would go to war with France largelyg over control of the wool trade, because Edward III received customs duties for it, and because ransoms proved a lucrative business for the nobility as the Little Ice Age made landowning less profitable. I'm wandering offtopibc, but it's just that this little corner of weather history ties into so much economic and political history. And I didn't realize this was probably what put the kbosh on Friesland as a major player and is when the Netherlands/Amsterdam really started to become the main power in that area, after geographical rearrangement. (As for atmospheric rivers, that's a concept known in atmospheric science on the west coast- look up the Arkstorm project, researching how these things happen every few hundred years. Not that the current atmospheric river has hit that level. Also known colloquially as the Pineapple Express because it starts near Hawaii, that humid stream carries rainstorms across California and can get stuck for weeks- when it gets stuck for months the result is truly biblical. The last time it happened was 1861-1862. Sacramento's levee system dates to right after that, and largely prototected downtown this time around, touch wood. I predict Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara and some other places will accelerate their planning for Arkstorm 2.0, which has been something California scientists have been warning about and city planners were beginning to get ready for over the past 5-10 years. I *think* our atmospheric river may be switching off now, although it's still raining as I speak, but this seems to be the last one on the radar for now. Stay tuned if we get another set. We desperately need the rain, even more so the snow which can fill reservoirs at a more gradual pace through melting, but this was a Lot>)

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Good video HG!

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Topical, relevant. and well narrated. Thanks!

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I so enjoy your channe, Thank you for these wonderful peices.

[@vet-7174]

All Good stories Involve Pirates

[@robertc.delmedico6242]

Fascinating!! Thank you.

[@michaelgalea5148]

Thank You for the great video. I learn so much about history.

[@chrisvickers7928]

I remember Typhoon Freda in 1962 off the west coast. It was a tropical cyclone which changed to an extratropical cyclone. It lead to very high winds, how high is not certain in many parts of Oregon and Washington as it destroyed anemometers. It also came with heavy rainfall.

[@orcstr8d]

Aka The Columbus Day Storm. I wasn’t alive yet but my mom told me a bit about it.

[@chrisvickers7928]

@@orcstr8d I was 10 watching out my parents' front window as a river was flowing down our street. I wanted to put on my rain boots and go out and play in it but mom vetoed that idea.

[@orcstr8d]

@@chrisvickers7928 first major wind storm I recall was the 1979 storm that sunk the Hood Canal bridge. I was in Seattle but getting real time news broadcasts via good old radio reporters at the time. Gusts were up to 100 mph along the canal.

[@vbscript2]

They called them Typhoons on the West Coast back then? East (and Central) Pacific storms are also called Hurricanes these days, just like the Atlantic ones. Only West Pacific storms are called Typhoons (and South Pacific and Indian are just called by the rather generic term "Tropical Cyclone.")

[@chrisvickers7928]

@@vbscript2 It was Typhoon Freda because it started in the west Pacific and tracked all the way across the Pacific to the west coast. I don't think it's happened again since and I hope it doesn't.

[@barto4678]

There used to be an old saying. DON'T MESS WITH MOTHER NATURE

[@jaronimo1976]

This one was lovely. It told me about how my country, the Netherlands, came to be. Made me cry.. Thank you through... 👍🏽

[@philiptaylor8790]

Holderness.My turf. Breathtaking in many ways. Fascinating stories of land grabs, lighthouses, smuggling and wreckers. The last recorded encounter between the RN and pirates. Sunk Island, Prince Albert's farm plan, coastal fortresses. Tolkien convalessed just up the road. Magnificent ancient churches. Thousands of migrating birds. What's not to love?

[@victorpearson1418]

You would enjoy a novel by Oliver Onions set around Holderness in the 1600s .."The story of Ragged Robin " featuring the smuggling outlaw gang of the "Queen of Holderness " .

[@philiptaylor8790]

@@victorpearson1418 Yes. The actual Queen of Holderness is St Patrick's Church in Patrington. Built by the same masons and from the same quarry stone as York minster. The King of Holderness is St Augustines in Hedon. Both superb and unexpectedly large structures.

[@victorpearson1418]

@@philiptaylor8790 In the book , the central figure (Robyn ) becomes an Apprentice stonemason working on York Minster . I think the outlaw gang was based on historical events around the Humber . A genuinely spooky tale with a shocking ending .Conjuring up a time of lawlessness and extortion more akin to the Wild West .

[@andredeketeleastutecomplex]

In short, anglos.

[@jamestnov41945]

Excellent episode thank you.

[@Redmenace96]

I do appreciate you pointing out that human activity contributes to the weather tragedies. If humans didn't live in these marginal areas, subject to extreme weather, nobody would take note of these colossal forces. (people in California living in fire, flood danger zones?)

[@chuckkottke]

Humans are great chroniclers of natural disasters because we put up structures to measure wind velocity, fire intensity, water levels, and debris accumulation sites. 😉

[@loistverberg900]

Its like the question, If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? If a storm rages and no humans have built anything in its path, is there any devastation or human witness for it to be remembered?

[@Redmenace96]

@@ralphgesler5110 No. You are taking me the wrong way. Didn't say, "all humanity". Most of humanity, especially Americans, can choose to not live in marginal zones. Govt. can step in, too. Most humans seek convenience and ease. For instance, We could ban housing on the ocean front, and make the fishermen travel 3 miles to work. Even poor countries could do that. Second, we may not "avoid[s] ANY chance", but we can MINIMIZE the chance/risk and the loss. Yes, weather and natural disasters are part of this world, but we don't have to raise that risk further. Driving an automobile has inherent risks, but I can minimize them by not driving drunk, with the headlights off.

[@valiantsfelinesmccarty6678]

Another fantastic forgotten history moment. I really appreciate the time you take to remind us that everybody's history is important. We should write down our history because you never know it could be the only remembrance of your time where you lived. I don't look back at the small rural town that I grew up in and it is so different today just to backwater to a big huge major City and all of the things that were historical to us and the wonderful people that helped make it a community are all gone. It's not a community anymore its just the place where people come to sleep and then go back to work on their commute. So sad history of what was once our little town is only in the history that was kept by the old paper the people who wrote it down the pictures that were taken.

[@memofromessex]

Grote Mandrenke has fascinated me for years. I got really fascinated about it and how it came around. An important to note is that ever since the end of the Ice Age, not only has the sea level risen but gravel banks and the general geology of the coast has been washed away leaving the coast of the North Sea ever more exposed. For example, in Roman times there was shingle banks of the coast of Lincolnshire - with these progressively washed away exposed the coast to more and more devastation.

[@jackmoore260]

History.....and a meteorological lesson too.

[@seanbatiz6620]

1:54> “Forestalling” came to mind… had me looking up that words’ origin(s) & various definitions for context

[@AndreasMadsen]

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

[@matthewbyrd398]

This is exactly why it makes me laugh when people say, "Save the planet!" To quote the late great George Carlin: "The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas!" Humans are the only species with a brain large enough to contemplate exactly how miniscule we are, and then completely deny it!

[@thomasdupee1440]

George Carlin also said that the planet will be fine. It's the people who will be ****** by our own actions.

[@cherylm2C6671]

A flea and a fly in a flue... figured it out.

[@dcollins4679]

We can do things that makes living conditions better in local environments. As for impacting global weather patterns and climate it is shear hubris. This human influenced climate change as it is now fashioned is about power, control and money. As things change how they stay the same.

[@banditeastlick2471]

I too have been warning ppl. I worked in disasters for fema

[@lanesaarloos281]

Amongst other threats to humanity a few significant volcanoes could cause massive illegal atmospheric pollution and solving Earth's over population problem in a few weeks..plus or minus.

[@korbell1089]

The Weather Channel: "It's the worst storm in History!!" Lance Geiger: "That's not entirely accurate."😀

[@dannysulyma6273]

The worst storm in history is the one that wipes you and your loved ones out.

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Be good if someone could forward this episode to Greta.

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Oo this is a great video 😍 I really did enjoy it, The History Guy !! 😁 ... i should call you ( The Real History Guy) from now on LoL 😁

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Let it be known from this day forth The Real History Guy is his KZbin channel name lol Really awesome history that deserves to be remembered !!!!!!!!

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Thank you

[@andyjay729]

The history of the North Sea basin seems to be peppered with catastrophic flooding events like this. Incidentally, the Anglo-Saxons, the progenitors of the English language, originated along the North Sea from the modern-day Netherlands to modern-day Demark, an area which, as explained here, was also hit hard by the Grote Mandrenke. I have to wonder if part of the reason they moved all the way to Britain was to avoid these floods by moving to an area with higher, more solid ground. Some of them likely served as mercenaries in the Roman legions in Britain.

[@feldgeist2637]

I'm from western "Sels-wig" ,modern day Northfrisia, which is part of the area from where the first Angles migrated to the Wash and Humber-Estuary regions and during late antiquity we were drowned from above too chilly weather and plenty of rain dominated here since the mid 300s AD and drove the people out of the lower laying "swampyfied" land up to the Geest (hard increase of burials in the cementaries on higher ground, beginning around 400 AD) but the ultimate decision to leave I guess, was politically motivated rich war-booty offerings suggesting a lot of chaos and struggle in the time of Attila and shortly after and the oldest stretches of the so called Danevirke are dating back to late anglish times also, the Angles didn't settle in the outer seamarshes ......more of a saxon thing, Reudinger and Myrgings in my area, which migrated far less united from their nearly unapproachable marsh-mires btw, Schleswig is mentioned in old chronicles as the location of the anglian royal court and between the outskirts of the city and the old Slesvig (Hedeby) you can find a old pre-viking site at a very well chosen place, called the "Hochburg" (High-Castle) but our cruel sea was indeed highly responsible for a migration event quite some time earlier and remember why the region is also called the Cimbrian Peninsula

[@Gulliolm]

Never thought i would see a regional tragedie that happened so close to me on this channel.

[@fearthehoneybadger]

You and Mark Felton are my two favorite KZbin historians.

[@wallymorgan2524]

I have been following mark forever also. 👍🐄🐮

[@masterimbecile]

Heck yeah dude!

[@scottmccloud9029]

Amen brother.

[@julianb5844]

Ditto

[@curtismcelhaney2512]

Yup

[@senorbe]

I probably shouldn't have watched this from Northern California today

[@billthomas8205]

The Church of England still has a Bishop of Dunwich - I knew one a few decades ago.

[@Erik_Swiger]

Great video. I'm not an "artsy" guy, but the image at 16:50 is awesome. I'm just smitten with it.

[@jacobsparry8525]

As all ways great nuggets of history polished and presented to the public that otherwise would have forgotten it.

[@gypsyboomer]

Good Stuff here! Thanks for the reminder that what man can make Gaia can break.

[@harriehausenman8623]

The writing is phenomenally clever and combined with the witty delivery, these videos are always of greatest joy to watch. Just wish it had more pirates 🏴‍☠ jk 😆

[@miaherssens16]

The role of overgrazing by sheep in the coastal dunes of Flanders is also seen as a contributing factor in the changing coastal geography. That was apparently due to the war effort in the 100 years war. The result was Antwerp taking primacy over Bruges. In essence the birth of the Wester Schelde.

[@andredeketeleastutecomplex]

Never mind mentioning a storm that swept away the land between the Honte and Antwerp, which was the real reason.

[@barryparker4066]

Price gouging in the 1300's.Some things never change.

[@stanstenson8168]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@russhall856]

Few people can rock a bowtie 👍

[@philipinchina]

Very interesting.

[@johnpolhamus9041]

Sending this link to a friend of mine in Yorkshire!

[@Yora21]

Hey, a story from home. Insurances reporting massive monetary damages is not just because of their strength of the storms around here, but also because there's a lot of very expensive buildings packed close to the coasts, and the countries are wealthy enough that people can afford insurance for them. England, Belgium, Netherlands, and Northeast Germany are all extremely wealthy and densely settled regions.

[@lynnhathaway3755]

I am currently working at home due to a winter storm and listening to all of THG episodes.

[@cyankirkpatrick5194]

It's true the sea is a harsh and cruel mistress and the best stories do contain pirates, once I told a peg leg pirate a scary story 😱 it was so scary it shook his timber 🥺😳🤢😉😜🙄😁🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤦🏻‍♀️

[@elcastorgrande]

Those who forget history are doomed. Great job, Lance!

[@mfhberg]

Thank you for this history lesson that I missed.

[@VictoriaAlfredSmythe]

thank you from Manhattan

[@janlindtner305]

You have a good point there

[@fredherfst8148]

🇨🇦retired metman here. Yes, the climate has varied in history. The study of sediments and tree rings have shown this. We are now meddling with the natural variation of climate..the statistics of weather…by adding CO2 and methane. A grand experiment which has already seen some results. A great story and good explanation of storms. Having been born in Amsterdam, I really appreciated this one. Also interested in pirates. They both make for interesting history.

[@nancysmith-baker1813]

There's a historical book called the third horseman talks about what was going on in Europe before , during and after 1360. Really interesting . This was very interesting too thank you .

[@markgarin6355]

Oh....so this was in England. About time you got around to telling us.

[@eliscanfield3913]

Pretty used to nor'easters. We get a few every year, but the equivalent of cat 4 and 5 hurricanes are hardly yearly. Those we take more seriously. New England's Blizzard of 1978 (2 weeks after the other one) was a nor'easter that dumped feet of snow on top of what the remains of the other blizzard gave us. I don't actually remember any anywhere near as bad as that, Or 1978's big one, either, since I was 13mo

[@g7u930]

I really enjoy the way you introduce history. Thank you for your quality information. Could you possibly do a piece on ancient healing oils and balms of the world so in use today?

[@g7u930]

*still in use today I mean.

[@dziban303]

Lol

[@stevedietrich8936]

I would assume that in the British Isles and the low lands of northwestern Europe it would have been a common opinion that the world was ending in another biblical flood. Churches and Cathedrals probably were standing room only.

[@steadfasttherenowned2460]

I always thing along that idea too. Imagine how the regular small folk felt during the plagues when, If memory serves, something like 70% of the European population died.

[@cherylm2C6671]

I think you are right, unfortunately for many people. The strongest buildings of the time were built on high grounds, not marshy soils. See a map of Iodine deficient regions. Floating farms and marinas may be a good experiment.

[@tz8785]

And this happened only 20 years after the St. Mary Magdalene's flood (although that one wasn't a sea flood).

[@steveshoemaker6347]

What a deal.....Thank THG🎀 Shoe🇺🇸

[@coling3957]

"anoraks" is a very English insult. :D

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

An odd slang term that I had to look up.

[@patricialong5767]

This is so very similar to the story of Port Royal!

[@Blaklege63]

Fascinating