C. 1930, downtown Pittsburgh was underwater from a great floor. One or two buildings that survived the flood have a market by the sidewalk showing the high water mark which, in my memory was about 5' above the walking surface. My point is that $31 Billion$ will re-build a lot of city.
Not when it get constantly pummeled by storms. The basic idea is good, one of the problems is that it will destroy a lot of premium beachfront property. And many people will simply oppose it. In Europe dikes are simply standard and build beachfront property outside the dikes is simply forbidden.
@@svenweihusen57 -- Again, it might make more sense to save the money and put everyone "at risk" that they are literally on their own. These GIANT engineering projects often cost a LOT more than budgeted. It might make more sense ti "island" more expensive real estate and leave everything else alone.
When the sea takes a building, rebuild somewhere else.
Honestly, could it be more effective to use the $31b to buy up all the land and return it to the barrier island it was supposed to be?
What's a few billion when you are protecting trillions?
They're dumb they'll never do that
We must reassess how we will live in a larger oceaned world? We have some serious thinking to do.
Errr … no sea wall for them! they want to secede! this will keep them from coming back
C. 1930, downtown Pittsburgh was underwater from a great floor. One or two buildings that survived the flood have a market by the sidewalk showing the high water mark which, in my memory was about 5' above the walking surface.
My point is that $31 Billion$ will re-build a lot of city.
Not when it get constantly pummeled by storms. The basic idea is good, one of the problems is that it will destroy a lot of premium beachfront property. And many people will simply oppose it. In Europe dikes are simply standard and build beachfront property outside the dikes is simply forbidden.
@@svenweihusen57 -- Again, it might make more sense to save the money and put everyone "at risk" that they are literally on their own. These GIANT engineering projects often cost a LOT more than budgeted. It might make more sense ti "island" more expensive real estate and leave everything else alone.
Texas is going to have to reintroduce income tax they can't avoid not having to spend money to keep their state infrastructure up
Yuck. Restore natural barriers.
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LOL BULLSHIT
It wouldn't disappear it would just be further back.
How embarrassing.