Storm damage or ignorance damage?
This country struggles with accepting the obvious daily, because so few people bother to be informed. They don't even know what "informed" means. They don't see the problem in relying on biased self-serving media sources to spoon feed them what the biased source wants them to think. It'll take more than a few puny hurricanes to change this apparently.
For example, it's been known for over a hundred or more years that hurricanes produce avg. storm surges of 12-15 ft. above mean high tide. Really strong and or prolonged storms (Sandy wasn't) can have 20 ft.+ storm surges dependent on tides, wind direction and related local funneling features. Yet, we build our infrastructure and homes below these known risk elevations. This has nothing to do with climate change, sea level rise, or politics - just basic reality that people ignore.
