That would require a commitment to stop building new homes in harm's way and to stormproof existing homes.
He gathered the weather data for a stormproof drilling platform that took over 5,000,000 pounds of steel to build and whose pilings were sunk 197 feet into the Gulf bottom.
In 1911 it was stormproof dirigibles without propellers.
5 Radical Ideas To Protect Coastal Cities From the Next Big Storm A bridge that deploys huge inflatable buoys to slow storm surges. A barrier reef grown from minerals harvested by electrical currents. An artificial island protecting the most surge-prone neighborhoods. Most of us are bracing for a blizzard this week, but the winners of a recent design competition, Stormproof , are imagining how to protect cities for the next summer storm season. Read more ...
Jan. 2, 2014 - Gizmodo