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>if the backup generators weren't submerged from failure to plan for flooding We need to be fair here: Plans for potential flooding were made, the issue was no
by Dalewyn 2y ago
>if the backup generators weren't submerged from failure to plan for flooding
We need to be fair here: Plans for potential flooding were made, the issue was nobody expected a tsunami that fucking tall and reasonably so.
Guidelines and such have been updated since so it (hopefully) won't happen again, but you can't fault engineers of the past for working with the data they had and coming to the conclusions they did.
- serf 2y ago>the issue was nobody expected a tsunami that fucking tall and reasonably so. that's less reasonable when you consider Japan's history with tsunami. The events in 1933,1896, and 1993 produced tsunamis with larger wave heights than the Tohoku event.