Too high water level! (or "The earth", part 2)

Great to finally see Bernd and Saskia's -9.4 meter- sailboat the Columbine, yesterday, but we almost had to swim back because of the extremely high water and the (too) quick increasing sea level! At arrival in the harbor of Scheveningen around 22:00h we already saw cars and trucks in the water until the axes, so we had difficulties getting onto the pier.
However, after seeking shelter in the boat because of heavy rain and extreme winds (we measured >26 m/s (>90 km/h)) there was no getting off the 'pier' anymore....the water had risen at least 30cm in the 15 minutes that we were in the boat.... I phoned Saskia, who was waiting for us in the car on "dry land", no answer, then Bernd found a pontoon, but this was a bit large and unstable.... Finally I managed to get on top of a pier-post (normally several meters above the surface, now only ~40 cm above the surface, some of them even invisible) and jump 1.5 m to "dry land".... for Bernd (short legs ;)) we arranged a wooden step ladder that was floating in the water, with this we bridged the gap between the pier and "dry land"............ very exciting!!!!