Err, that article also only mentions RotterdamOriginally Posted by Ominous Gamer
Anyway, protecting at least densely populated areas with a lot of industry etc sounds like a good idea to me - yes, the costs are astronomical, but so is the damage caused by storms like this. Wiki claims damage to NY is at least 18 billion.. sounds like decent protections would be worth it there.
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figures I would find the more correct article on my 2nd attempt, this is all i could find this morning before work when I first searched. http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast....amsterdam.html which didn't directly mention rotterdam.
oh well, close enough.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Right, reference to Netherlands massive civil engineering projects to control water and flooding. My guess is he used Amsterdam because it's commonly recognized by Americans (with -dam at the end)Dutch ingenuity, plus willingness to invest money in thousand-year project planning, using government funds. Sounds like SSSocialism huh.
"Resources" can mean funding (sent to states). But more importantly physical goods stationed in regional hubs. Things like generators, mobile kitchen units, MREs, porta-potties, sleeping cots, etc. Those items get ruined if they're housed in the same area as the disaster. And it isn't efficient for every town or city to stock/store/duplicate those things.
Problem with Sandy is that it affected ~13 states, making neighboring states less able to help (as they were victims, too). FEMA has the stuff, and the workers, that can be mobilized from any region, using logistics (plane, car, truck) that can leave in-state or local responders immobile. It's supposed to start locally, with Governors making Disaster Declarations, requesting National Guard, using local responders first. Coordinating with feds and POTUS declaring National Disaster triggers the FEMA response.
Sure, just making something private does not always make it better.
Looks more like a reference to New Yorks previous name if you ask me.My guess is he used Amsterdam because it's commonly recognized by Americans (with -dam at the end)
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Or because it's a former financial capital of the world that's located at/below sea level. Or because he's ripping off the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/ny...eality.html?hp
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Were do you see Amsterdam in that article? Btw Amsterdam is not below sea level.
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
It talks about the Netherlands.
Pfft, Amsterdam is like two meters above sea level. That's on a mountain by our standards!Or because it's a former financial capital of the world that's located at/below sea level. Or because he's ripping off the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/ny...eality.html?hp
I get the name thing though, New York used to be New Amsterdam, and Dutch, and we have good sea defenses. Amsterdam moment just is a weird thing, since Amsterdam wasn't flooded, nor part of the Delta Works, nor was it a 'moment' (it took 50 years to complete, and some plans were already there before the flood, just expanded and accelerated). Our struggle against water isn't exactly a new thing.
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Nobody is denying the Netherlands/Delta works analogy, it's just that Amsterdam doesn't have anything to do with it, it just happens to be in the same country, that's all.
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FEMA does have room for funding or operational changes, but it's in the housing area. There are still people in Gulf states living in "temporary" FEMA housing units, years after the disasters.
How well would anyone here rate FEMA's job performance so far?
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