EDITORIAL: What happens when resilience is missing
This area was spared serious damage from Hurricane Michael, which passed swiftly across
We don't know how closely Michael's deadly power was linked to climate change, but we do know that some elements of a warmer climate contributed. The hurricane caught many forecasters by surprise. It developed unusually fast in the
What made it accelerate and keep its strength? Warm water -- the Gulf's water is several degrees above normal again this year, just as it was when Hurricane Harvey nearly drowned
We can only hope now that Florence and Michael will be the end of our woes for this year, but we also know we've got another six weeks before the 2018 hurricane season officially ends.
We expect that Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator
Long, for one, finds the answer in readiness more than in the response. "A bigger
While there are some places where rebuilding should no longer be allowed, it's also realistic to believe that America's headlong population rush to the coasts isn't going to end anytime soon. The question becomes, how do we insure that buildings, roads, utilities and other essential infrastructure can survive these increasingly harsh tropical storms? Brock argues that, "The key to resiliency in this country is local and state officials passing building codes. We have to build to a higher standard. We must stop this vicious cycle of destruction and learn this storm-surge lesson."
We hope
If we didn't learn that lesson from Matthew, surely we must have learned it from Florence. Didn't we?
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