Levee failure is not an 'if', it's a 'when'. There seems to be a willingness to tolerate the human suffering and property loss that might come with these events. -Jeffrey Mount

 

Levee failure is not an 'if', it's a 'when'. There seems to be a willingness to tolerate the human suffering and property loss that might come with these events.


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New Orleans lost the battle with the inevitable, and we will suffer the same fate in some form here in California.

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If these had been in place, at least some of the energy in the storm surge would have been dissipated. This is a self-inflicted wound.

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Unlike most animals - with some exceptions like beavers - we engineer our environment. So that allows us to hang on in places that would otherwise be singularly inhospitable.

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Levee failure is not an 'if', it's a 'when'. There seems to be a willingness to tolerate the human suffering and property loss that might come with these events.

Jeffrey Mount

We are an obstinate bunch.

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