After Getting Back to Normal, Big Job Is Facing New Reality
The
Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel was flooded. The waters surrounding New York
City have been rising an inch a decade, and the pace is picking up.
First, life has to be rewound to Friday, Oct. 26 — the last weekday before Hurricane Sandy crippled and disoriented the New York area. To make that happen, repairs to damaged power grids, transportation networks and housing will grind on for weeks, if not months, at a staggering cost.
But the bigger question is what occurs after that.
Basic restoration leaves everything just as vulnerable to the next
monster storm. Hurricane Sandy is now a gauge of the region’s new
fragility. Climate change and extreme weather are presenting government — and the public — with some overwhelming choices.
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