2012 above - 2008 below
The difference was North Carolina, Nebraska, Indiana and possibly Florida. President Obama held his ground. Some of the electoral college numbers are different, but, not enough to matter.
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Let me propose an initiative for the next administration, starting with Day One: Get the nation started on the surge barriers, flood walls and other big infrastructure projects that can protect our coastal cities from being ravaged by the next Hurricane Sandy....
Let me propose an initiative for the next administration, starting with Day One: Get the nation started on the surge barriers, flood walls and other big infrastructure projects that can protect our coastal cities from being ravaged by the next Hurricane Sandy....
Yes and no. There are plenty of models regarding manmade structures causing more problems than not. Before construction of sea walls and the like, New Jersey is usually held as an example of where 'cement groins' are disastrous and cause beach erosion rather than maintaining them.
There needs to be some modern day assessments of the tides and beaches to determine what is best for 'The Jersey Shore.' There also exists zoning problems for beach communities in New Jersey. There are well established communities that cannot simply be allowed to be wiped off the map and to that understanding permanent structures have to be established. These areas have to be known ZONED areas where the community takes precedent over the recreation beaches. People have a right to property rights.
The thing with the cement groins in New Jersey is this; they can cause large bathtubs of redundant tides during these storms. The washing back and forth of the storm between these cement groins might be a huge factor in the destruction that resulted. So before any reconstruction takes place New Jersey needs to be defensively assessed to find the best 'tide model' that will actually dissipate powerful tides rather than increase their energy in redundancy of movement between concrete structures.
The local communities will want what is best and will appreciate an approach that actually provides for a good defense of their shoreline. It might be the concrete groins have to be demolished if indeed they have caused tidal damage. That dynamic might be what occurred to make the damage appear to be from a higher category storm, too.
Much has to be done, but, "The Jersey Shore" is too important to simply reconstruct a disaster in the making. The people of New Jersey have to get it right this time.
There needs to be some modern day assessments of the tides and beaches to determine what is best for 'The Jersey Shore.' There also exists zoning problems for beach communities in New Jersey. There are well established communities that cannot simply be allowed to be wiped off the map and to that understanding permanent structures have to be established. These areas have to be known ZONED areas where the community takes precedent over the recreation beaches. People have a right to property rights.
The thing with the cement groins in New Jersey is this; they can cause large bathtubs of redundant tides during these storms. The washing back and forth of the storm between these cement groins might be a huge factor in the destruction that resulted. So before any reconstruction takes place New Jersey needs to be defensively assessed to find the best 'tide model' that will actually dissipate powerful tides rather than increase their energy in redundancy of movement between concrete structures.
The local communities will want what is best and will appreciate an approach that actually provides for a good defense of their shoreline. It might be the concrete groins have to be demolished if indeed they have caused tidal damage. That dynamic might be what occurred to make the damage appear to be from a higher category storm, too.
Much has to be done, but, "The Jersey Shore" is too important to simply reconstruct a disaster in the making. The people of New Jersey have to get it right this time.
