Cat 5 Dorian Raises Alarm On Resilience

摘要

As residents of the Bahamas' northern islands grapple with death and destruction in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, engineers, scientists and government officials far and wide are addressing the dire need to better prepare for more intense and longer hurricanes. "While infrastructure is traditionally designed to hold up to rare but expected extreme weather events, these events are no longer rare, and their durations and intensities are well beyond normal expectations," says Cris Liban, LA Metro's Executive Officer for environmental compli-ance and sustainability program management, and the chair of American Society of Civil Engineers' Committee on Sustainability. "I will never see a Katrina nor a Dorian here in L.A. What we will see, however, is the constant and consistent exposure of our infrastructure to a chronic state of extreme environment."