Louisiana’s $2-Billion Gamble: Flood the Land to Save the Coast

He seems to have impressive credentials. I would have to see a lot more of his work before I could say yes or no. :)

Good article. I believe they did it the responsible way. They basically cleared areas that would already be flooded, improved them, and thereby worked with nature. If I'm not mistaken in the Louisiana, they are sacrificing land that would have stayed dry, to preserve other built up coastal areas. To me that's a hard sell, unless of course you live or have property in the coastal area. There is also a question of design frequency. The farmer's son was thinking wrong about the design frequency saying the storm would cone every 50 years. For convent's sake let's say we are designing for the 100 year storm, all that means is there is a 1% chance "in any given year" that a storm will exceed that frequency. There are no concrete numbers in nature. :)

SFC (Join to see) - Agreed as to the 100 year storm versus *actual* year-to-year probability. As to the number of *days go by* before Mother Nature returns, no amount on online Dancin’ can say for sure.

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