[SharkAttack]

Originally Posted by Niall

I keep seeing pictures of the flooded subway in New York and it's just insane. Some of the pumps installed in that system are actually second hand from when the Panama Canal was built in 1914. No wonder everything went to ****.

The problem is, no one is prepared for the larger problem...like the ocean flooding your city. Pumps aren't going to do a damned thing. Technology is moving in the right direction, IMHO, but with the wrong products. iPhone or legendary pump system?

[Niall]

Originally Posted by SharkAttack

The problem is, no one is prepared for the larger problem...like the ocean flooding your city. Pumps aren't going to do a damned thing. Technology is moving in the right direction, IMHO, but with the wrong products. iPhone or legendary pump system?

Well the thing is, I read that anything over an inch of surplus rainwater would inundate the subway pumps. That seems like it needs aggressive upgrading to me.

I mean fair enough, they can't protect against the Sandy-scale flooding but they need new pumps immediately.

And I don't think it's a case of technology moving in the wrong direction, but more a case of money going to the wrong places -cough- for-profit companies -cough cough-.