XPost: alt.politics.usa, alt.disaster   
   From: chine.bleu@yahoo.com   
      
   Jan Panteltje wrote:   
   >> Jan Panteltje wrote:   
   >>> >>We have an alarm system on phones here in the Netherlands.   
   >>> >>Most people, even kids carry one these days.   
   >> >   
   >> >A system for phone alerts costs money. Just like intensive weather   
   >> >forecasting costs money. Voters have their priorities on how to spend   
   taxes.   
   > True, I think they learned a lesson here in the 1953 flooding:   
   >   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_flood_of_1953   
   > Much of the country is below sea level,   
   > big cities like Amsterdam are about 2 meters below sea-level.   
   > I once worked in the water control and monitoring there.   
   > Now all sensors and computers and huge pumping stations...   
   > When ever no electricity all will flood.   
   >   
   >   
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