Quote Originally Posted by KukriKhan
Meanwhile, in an obviously clerical error that would be comedic, where lives not at stake: FEMA sends evac's to wrong city
Happens to the best of us. The Herald Trib has a decent article today (originally from the new York Times I believe) about Dutch coastal defences. What it smoothes over (for lack of space) is the total screw-up during the Dutch flooding disaster in 1953. But what it mentions is that nature is always full of surprises and rarely follows a man-made scenario.Now we have decent defenses, but it took us a while. We were the ones who invented dykes and polders, right? So we reckoned in 1953 that the nation was prepared for a major hurricane + high tide. Yeah right...