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Bill McKee

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On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:06:42 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:09:49 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:11:51 -0400, wrote:

They have a similar scenario for New York City with Long
Island Sound acting the same way.
The History Channel even did a show on it.

The risk to NYC is much less because the vast majority of the land is
well above sea level, unlike New Orleans which is mostly below. About
once every ten years or so lower Manhattan near the Wall Street area
gets flooded by a combination of high tides and strong north easterly
winds but there is little long term impact. Probably the biggest
property risk to to the south shores of both Long Island and
Conecticut. They are highly developed with a lot of expensive real
estate.

Maybe FEMA should force them to leave!

I bet you FEMA forces them to follow the datum plane rules.
These people also have easy evacuation routes to high ground and the
resources to rebuild their houses in a code conforming way.

Better yet, FEMA should move them to one of their
concentration/reeducation
camps.

You are just getting silly now.
BTW I understand you have a similar problem around Sacramento
with an ancient levee system that is likely to fail and flood a huge
area.

Sacramento is not the major levee threat. But politicians took some bribes,
oops campaign donations to change the flood plane around parts of Sacramento
to not be a flood plane and the developers build thousands of homes on those
no longer flood planes.