Storm season is upon us, and with climate change bringing us more severe and more frequent storms. Flooding is happening more often. Everytime there's flooding someone talks about the insanity of building on a flood plane. Usually with a picture of a sign announcing a development of executive homes, sat in a field of water. The thing is. The problem isn't building in flood planes. The problem is building shitty buildings in flood planes. Naturally the Dutch have a thing or tow to say on this 1/n

This is Maasbommel. A small city on the banks of the Maas river in the Netherlands. The settlement has existed here for best part of a millennia. Most of the old city is built on the inside of the dijks, which protect it from the water levels of the Maas river (aka the Meuse). But these homes. They are built on the "wrong" side of the dijk. They have nothing between them and the flood waters of the Maas. On the face of it they look like pretty normal modern homes. 2/n