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echo: fidonews
to: KEES VAN EETEN
from: GERRIT KUEHN
date: 2016-08-30 17:47:00
subject: The New Normal

Hello Kees!

29 Aug 16 22:37, Kees van Eeten wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:


 KvE>  There is a difference, we do not have that type of hurricanes and 
 KvE> we know
 KvE>  how to keep our feet dry most of the time.

You name it: "most of the time". Is drowning once every 50 years tolerable?

 KvE>  It would help if you restored the flood planes in the higher 
 KvE> regions of
 KvE>  the Rhine. But the people in Koeln are asking for the same, so that 
 KvE> will
 KvE>  be covered.

This is not only a matter of the Rhine, this mistake has been done with almost
every major river. However, the rivers are not the main threat imo, the sea is.


Regards,
Gerrit

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