>Peter,
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>Not so much a different idea of risks.. a different idea of economics. All decent engineers know how to size something for various likelihood events. The decision what size to build is based off how much it costs.
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>I grew up near the Mississippi River in Missouri. The river floods every spring because of snow melt runoff. The levees there were all built based on a once-in-a-hundred-years flood estimate. There have been like 2 hundred year flood events in the last few years.
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>Can the levees be built taller and thicker to withstand larger floods? Sure they can. Is money available to do it? Generally, no it's not.
Hmmmm
I suppose the clean-up and rebuild is going to be cheaper than better levees? It's so sad.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
