09-01-2005, 08:41 AM
Minionman,Aug 31 2005, 07:54 PM Wrote:Actually, it was french (I'm pretty sure), so if freedom fries are still bouncing around in your head, here's something to file away there.
It's pretty strange, actually, how this huge hurricane has wiped out New Orleans and southern Mississippi, and is now moving across the rest of the eastern U.S., and nothing has happened where I am. (I get the weather reasons, still strange anyway.)
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Well in principal you can build below sea level. Only you'd better have a very good system of dikes and dams. In Holand we had a disaster in 1953 after which we started building a giant stormflood barrier. (when heavy winds push water in the Channel water levels can rise quite a lot). These things will become increasingly more important with the rising sea levels because of the greenhouse effect.
The hurricane decreased in power quite quickly, from a type 5 to a type one in a few hours. That's why the rest of the eastern US wasn't damaged too much.