Originally posted by Ray:
Nature can NOT be "kept at bay".. regardless of engineering resources or ingenuity. Rivers can be made to turn (not permanently, anyway).. lakes can't be held.. (again.. not permanently)

and you can't fight the fury of a hurricane, or a tornado.. Mother Nature WILL bite you in the behind for trying.


Ray



Yes in the long run nature wins always, but then again in the long run we're all dead too. And yes, the Netherlands is keeping nature at bay. Obviously we don't have the power to control hurricanes and tornados(I never said we did in the first place), but without the numerous engineering achievements that they have implemented, the current 3rd (around there) largest agricultural economy in the world wouldn't exist and would be under water as we speak.

Originally posted by elraido:
And don't the Neathernlands have THREE flood walls to protect them as opposed to the ONE that New Orleans had?



I don't know about three but they definitely have more than one. They were/are prepared for floods and are able to minimize damage if there happens to be one.

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