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Three Years After Sandy, Is New York Prepared for the Next Big Storm? https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29102015/three-years-after-sandy-new-york-prepared-next

Three Years After Sandy, Is New York Prepared for the Next Big Storm? https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29102015/three-years-after-sandy-new-york-prepared-next-big-storm https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29102015/three-years-afte... California ill-prepared for the Big One, experts say https://phys.org/news/2016-07-california-ill-prepared-big-experts.html https://phys.org/news/2016-07-california-ill-prepared-big-ex... What Would Happen If Yellowstone's Supervolcano Erupted? https://www.livescience.com/20714-yellowstone-supervolcano-eruption.html https://www.livescience.com/20714-yellowstone-supervolcano-e... America’s Crumbling Dams Are A Disaster Waiting To Happen http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/america-crumbling-dam-infrastructure_us_573a332be4b08f96c183deac http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/america-crumbling-dam... Scientists say Seattle’s overdue earthquake could happen within 50 years http://mynorthwest.com/12944/scientists-say-seattles-overdue-earthquake-could-happen-within-50-years/ http://mynorthwest.com/12944/scientists-say-seattles-overdue... Ancient aliens are hibernating on Earth – and they are waiting to ATTACK - shock claims http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/618941/ancient-aliens-hibernating-underneath-earth-attack-invasion-encelladus-trappist-1-NASA http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/618941/ancient-a... There's nothing particularly interesting about old articles that appear to have predicted current events. When it happens, someone will dig up the old article saying "are we ready for the floobledasch EVENT?!!!"

jamesrcole 9y ago
> There's nothing particularly interesting about old articles that appear to have predicted current events. There is, if: - they had valid grounds for making the prediction - something could have been done to better prepare for the event and - the warnings were recklessly ignored.
matt_s 9y ago
Prepared or not, I think there is some element of it being really hard to get funding to go fix things proactively vs. tapping into a Federal organization which will fund the aftermath. I wonder if there have been studies comparing the costs? The hurricane is coming either way and there will be a need to cleanup. Its the same in some software organizations, fixing things so they are right takes a lot of convincing vs. band-aids when the problem comes up.
- honestoHeminway 9y ago
  YAGNI. What a great gravestone inscription.
briholt 9y ago
Let me predict right here, right now, that someday something bad will happen somewhere and someone will be unprepared for it. You heard it hear first.
yahna 9y ago
I dunno, people/society have a tendency to ignore problems and then freak out when they cause issues. Maybe if we keep hammering on about how people predicted this stuff the next prediction will get listened to a bit mroe.

jamesrcole 9y ago

> There's nothing particularly interesting about old articles that appear to have predicted current events. There is, if: - they had valid grounds for making the prediction - something could have been done to better prepare for the event and - the warnings were recklessly ignored.

matt_s 9y ago

Prepared or not, I think there is some element of it being really hard to get funding to go fix things proactively vs. tapping into a Federal organization which will fund the aftermath. I wonder if there have been studies comparing the costs? The hurricane is coming either way and there will be a need to cleanup. Its the same in some software organizations, fixing things so they are right takes a lot of convincing vs. band-aids when the problem comes up.

honestoHeminway 9y ago
YAGNI. What a great gravestone inscription.

briholt 9y ago

Let me predict right here, right now, that someday something bad will happen somewhere and someone will be unprepared for it. You heard it hear first.

yahna 9y ago

I dunno, people/society have a tendency to ignore problems and then freak out when they cause issues. Maybe if we keep hammering on about how people predicted this stuff the next prediction will get listened to a bit mroe.