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I remember watching it on CNN from Ireland and it was a bizarre. For about two days before they were saying it's probably going to flood, about every 30 minutes on repeat, so I assumed people would evacuate if necessary. Then it did flood with people still there and something of a mess. Then George Bush was shown on repeat saying it's sad but no one could have foreseen this.

I'm not sure it was a sign to leave the place so much as the levees should have been raised about 2 ft higher to deal with the pretty predictable water levels.

This current thing is also kind of bizarre saing there'll be a sea level rise about 10x reality. Why can't people do maths and realistic estimates and planning? I assume it's some kind of politics that requires the untruths? I'm not American and don't really get the politics and why they can't do sensible calculation on flood defences like the Dutch say.