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NOAA’s Adam Smith said one silver lining from the extremes of 2021 was that large-scale, years-long flood mitigation investment was tested and did well.
The $15-billion levee and pumping system that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
built around New Orleans was tested by Hurricane Ida, and the city fared better
than areas outside it with older levees and no mitigation infrastructure.
“California recently decided to invest heavily in hardening its power grid to mitigate wildfire impacts.
This is an investment that will almost certainly pay off in the years ahead given the increased intensity of wildfire seasons,” he said.
“The Texas power grid issues from the mid-February 2021 cold wave was also an
example where additional resilience of the power system would have saved
billions of dollars in damage.
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