Earlier this month, Amsterdam narrowly escaped catastrophic flooding.
Storm Ciarán dumped so much rain on the Dutch capital, which lies two metres below sea level, that people close to the city's main waterway saw water lapping against their souterrain windows. The NRC, one of the Netherland's newspapers of record, reported one resident joked...
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