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| Manhattan - dark after Sandy |
Read my lips "No new taxes". Is anyone other than the voters responsible for the Hurricane Sandy disaster?
For years, New York ignored warnings.
by David W. Chen and Mireya Navarro
For nearly a decade, scientists have warned city and state officials that New York faces certain peril: rising sea levels, more frequent flooding and extreme weather patterns. The alarm bells grew louder after Tropical Storm Irene last year, when the city shut down its subway system and water rushed into the Rockaways and Lower Manhattan.
On Tuesday, as New Yorkers woke up to submerged neighborhoods and water-soaked electrical equipment, officials took their first tentative steps toward considering major infrastructure changes that could protect the city’s fragile shores and eight million residents from repeated disastrous damage.
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| riprap seawall at Brooklyn Bridge Park |
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