Rebuilding Infrastructure
While it is sad that people have died because of the storm, the repair and replacement of parts of the infrastructure will bring a lot of benefits. This is an opportunity to replace ancient equipment, hopefully the new will have the quality and endurance of those 100 year old pumps.
The allies bombed the German factories to stop the war machine, the actual effect was to force the German manufacturing to replace old equipment with newer and more efficient equipment and the factory output held up in spite of the damage. The Atlantic coast will have to replace old infrastructure and replace it with new. Hopefully, the replacement process will go swiftly and no short cuts taken to patch the old infrastructure.
