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> It’s not really a problem, you just adjust the size of your assumed storm. Adjusting how you call the storm doesn't make the wall bigger: that's the problem.
by CGamesPlay 2y ago
> It’s not really a problem, you just adjust the size of your assumed storm.
Adjusting how you call the storm doesn't make the wall bigger: that's the problem. (It also makes their statement untrue in the present day, regardless of if it was true when the wall was designed.)
- beerandt 2y agoIt's not 'adjusting how you call the storm'. It's the engineer defining his design criteria (the 'design-storm'), based-on and benchmarked-to local historical data, including recurrent intervals. The wall doesn't need to be bigger if next years data changes. It was designed for a (this year) 100yr- or 500yr-storm, not a guess of hypothetical future one.