Posted by jimw on 5/31/2009, 10:18 am, in reply to "Hurricane barriers floated to keep sea out of NYC "

Unfortunately the costs would be tremendous and it will take a major hurricane in there to motivate officials & residents to build them. I think complacency will always be the case unless we get more frequent landfalls or it will be an impossible sell. --Previous Message-- : : http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NYC_SEA_BARRIERS?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US : : Interesting concept...but seems quite : unrealistic..$$$ :