Flood, Rebuild, Repeat: Are We Ready for a Superstorm Sandy Every Other Year? — by Kate Sheppard

Why we pretend the next storm won't happen—and flush billions in disaster relief down the drain.

With sea levels rising along the East Coast—a natural phenomenon accelerated by climate change—scientists project that in our lifetimes what was once considered a 100-year flood will happen every 3 to 20 years. And truly catastrophic storms will do damage unimaginable today. "With the exact same Sandy 100 years from now," says George Deodatis, a civil engineer at Columbia University, "if you have, say, five feet of sea level rise, it's going to be much more devastating."

Flood, Rebuild, Repeat: Are We Ready for a Superstorm Sandy Every Other Year? — by Kate Sheppard