when the Levee breaks

[klesh]

Their Levees - Our Levees



Here's how the British hold back the waters from flooding London:




And the Dutch solution to protecting an entire nation that mostly rests below sea level:




The Italians are defending their city on the sea, Venice:




And the richest, most powerful and technologically advanced nation on earth the USA...























wait for it

[Q Classic]

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so, like, what's your point?

[MOBIUS]

It's the Republicans fault.

[klesh]

anything you want it to be.

[Q Classic]

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so, if you haven't a point, I'm going to hijack it.

Anybody seen this movie?

Thoughts?

[Starchild]

The Dutch also build theirs to fail once in every 10,000 years. Then again, they have much much more to lose.

[asleepathewheel]

The Saints don't bother with a tear-stained eye

[Pyrodrew]

And the richest, most powerful and technologically advanced nation on earth the USA

We're only the richest, most powerful and technologically advanced in certain threads, like this one.

Woohoo! We're #1!
within this thread anyways

[Chemical Ollie]

Amtrak vs Chinese Maglevs

[DanS]

As far as I know, neither the Dutch, Italians, nor Brits have their levees rated for very high winds and storm surge. AFAIK, they haven't built their metropolises on sand, either.

[Richelieu]

IT'S TEH SAND!!! THAT"S WHAT IT WAS!!! TEH SAND!!!

[JohnT]

Originally posted by DanS
As far as I know, neither the Dutch, Italians, nor Brits have their levees rated for very high winds and storm surge. AFAIK, they haven't built their metropolises on sand, either.

Nor have they the varying climes to put them in, nor do they have anywhere near the amount of land protected by theirs as we do ours, nor, given that current Dutch levees were built after a 1953 flood (wiki cite) that killed 1,800 people, should they take too much of a sanctimonious air about this, for their vaunted protection, too, came at the expense of a city and 4 times as many deaths.

Also, the Dutch wonder-dikes were finished in... 1998. Didn't want to rush things, apparently

[Berzerker]

Lets see how those other systems stand up to a Cat 4 hurricane

[Sava]

excuses

[Dauphin]

The Thames barrier isn't designed to stop flooding. Its only designed to protect the City. The eastern suburbs north and south of the river being flooded instead. Its a cool design as those areas are run-down and full of chavs.