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lev·ees
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#16685 | dams | |
#25434 | dykes | |
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#45127 | dikes | |
#81668 | embankments |
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They float. They tend to go wherever the water goes. We’ve recovered them from yards, from levees, from underneath stairwells, there’s no rhyme or reason, really, to where they come to rest, and then it’s kind of our logistical problem to figure out how to get them out of there.
The Europeans in the 1990s started doing this. They made a multi-billion-euro investment to draw levees back.
I suspect the main response is going to be protection works rather than moving people away. So building sea walls, building levees, stop banks, putting houses up on higher piles.
Theres a lot of flooding again in some cities that had flooded before, but this time it has been more severe and faster because the levees that protect the cities had been damaged by Eta.
The water is up on sandbags or within six inches of overtopping levees so any commercial traffic going through that closed area could potentially cause damage to those levees.
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