From: skutvik@online.no
Date: Mon Sep 05 2005 - 08:41:33 BST
Gert-Jan, Platt & Crowd
5 Sep. Gert-Jan Peeters wrote:
> Very very VERY interesting Thread this is.
> Platt wrote:
> ...city (community) below sea level whose existence depends on keeping
> water out has a moral responsibility to prepare for a predictable
> calamity, just as the Dutch do in Holland. I would like to know from
> Wim Nusselder or anyone else familiar with the Netherlands what their
> plans are in case of breaches of their dikes and if those plans are
> widely known and understood by the populace..
Thanks to both of you, I wrote a message earlier, but it did not
make it through. In it I posed a similar question to Gert-Jan so it
was terrible interesting to read ...only that the great disaster was
more like 50 years ago ;-) There was something on Discovery
recently about the great "final" dike. Tremendous!
I also found Platt's analysis of the New Orleans situation most
apt, in a city that is beyond seal level and in a notorious storm
area some thorough planning is needed. Another point I made
was that the modern techno-society is a great asset ... up to a
point, but beyond that it adds to the calamity.
Bo
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