More rescue operations got underway on Monday, February 2nd. The first villages at the edges of the disaster area were evacuated. On the islands, the only rescuers were still individuals with boats. Fishermen, especially, managed to free many people from their perilous positions. Still, that Monday evening, the many people marooned in isolated houses, churches and farms on Schouwen-Duiveland and Goeree-Overflakkee, faced the third night and the fifth flood .