Jeffrey Mount
Jeffrey Mount
failure human loss might property seems suffering tolerate
Levee failure is not an 'if', it's a 'when'. There seems to be a willingness to tolerate the human suffering and property loss that might come with these events.
failed kinds
In California, we know that we have two kinds of levees: Those that have failed and those that will fail.
battle lost orleans
New Orleans has lost the battle with the inevitable, and we will do the same.
battle fate form lost orleans suffer
New Orleans lost the battle with the inevitable, and we will suffer the same fate in some form here in California.
delta failure next
The probability of a catastrophic levee failure in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in the next 50 years is two in three.
self spur
You actually spur development. It's a self-fulfilling process.