When Your Dream Apartment Keeps Flooding
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
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The images of water pouring into subways and banks, cars submerged on Avenue A, escalators that needed to be ridden with scuba equipment, brought to mind an apocalypse of a specific kind, another lost city—Atlantis. Was this what New York could become?
A Powerless New York During Hurricane Sandy -- New York Magazine - Nymag
Those with cars (and means) could leave, the rest were stuck; some had gas burners, the rest ate their food cold; those with water towers had at least a few days with running water, others had to make do with hydrants. The drama of unequal division uncannily defined the crisis, just as it had an election year that was finally coming to an end.
A Powerless New York During Hurricane Sandy -- New York Magazine - Nymag
We were there ten years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, and a lot of the conversations were about how you come up with a place that people know that they can go to and then tell them how much time they have — sometimes it’s only a few minutes — to actually leave. There they are called “escape buildings,” these multistory fortified buildings.
New York Needs to Become a City That Floods Now and Then
After Valencia, nobody can say they did not know
We used to think the kind of damage wrought by recent flooding in the west of Spain was beyond imagination. Very soon, it could become the norm
Dominic Hinde9th November 2024
Walking over the bridges of the Turia river into the southern suburbs of Valencia is to cross a threshold from the present into a
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