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thompsontalker7 posted...

Bio1590 posted...

You can't stop it, you can only mitigate the damage. But the problem there is that people have to care.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-harvey-engineering-20170828-story.html

The city’s flood system is supposed to protect the public from a 100-year storm, but Bea calls that “a 100-year lie” because it is based on a rainfall total of 13 inches in 24 hours.

“That has happened more than eight times in the last 27 years,” Bea said. “It is wrong on two counts. It isn’t accurate about the past risk and it doesn’t reflect what will happen in the next 100 years.”

Yeah, that's the stuff I had in mind. You'd think after Katrina the entire South would've been extra vigilant so that things like this wouldn't have been nearly as terrible.

I think they are aware of what needs to be done, but redoing infrastructure on a scale that big would be immensely expensive, at least in the mid-twelve digits
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