Scheveningen harbor during a storm

In the last 40 years there have two or three storms in the Scheveningen harbor which have been so strong that the large fishing boats have been picked up from their mooring positions and the sea water has come up over the quay. You can see our little VW Polo parked next to the Tridens trawler, which has risen far into the air. Its lines are stretched upwards as the ship rises. The sea water is sloshing ovr the edge of the quay and you can see the white caps on the sea face. On the days when the winter winds are very strong and from the South, the beach roads along the dike faces are covered with blowing sand and the police stop all traffic. Once, in the 1970's, a ship was blown onto the beach from its mooring 10 miles out at sea. It was the pirate radio station, Radio Northsea, and it became a huge tourist attraction, until a channel was dug and the ship was towed out to sea again.