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Originally Posted by 9876543210
deepsepia,
Hah! Good point. Looks like NYC is going to be needing some of those sea walls.
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You know, even though the Republicans like to mock the idea, spending stimulus money on disaster preparedness infrastructure would be a great investment.
What would tide gates for New York like those on the Thames cost? Think of how many people would be put to work. Earthquake preparedness on the West Coast, and levys on the Mississippi would be the same.
The Dutch built giant sea walls after their floods of 1953, so its very mature technology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works