This article has been written after Hurricane Irene which came 2 months before Hurricane Sandy. It is coming as a wake up call New York City as a precaution if anything catastrophic were to happen. Then Hurricane Sandy came and proved just how accurate the article was.
One issue the article mentioned is that the flood maps are not being updated. This means that buildings that were built recently have not been up to the right standards. This has been proven when Hurricane Sandy struck and those building were in fact flooded. Also, the maps did not put climate change in the equation. I believe that buildings should not just be built upon floods in the past but on future projections of flood maps.
Another main shock to me was that $18.3 billion worth of infrastructure is located in the mandatory evacuation flood area. That seems ridiculous that we let it go up that high. Now since it is already built, we are forced to just protect it and find new technology to keep it intact.
