The most urgent, and most fixable, challenge is that we have the wrong kind of streets
Photo: David Dee Delgado/Getty Images In the nine years since Superstorm Sandy rolled over New York, pushing walls of water onshore, the city has approached resiliency with a multipronged approach: crossed fingers, wishful thinking, and galvanizing panic.
When rain assaults New York, it slams against asphalt first, a 6,000-mile waterproof crust. Unable to soak into the ground, stormwater swirls into gutters and washes past trash-clogged drains. Along the way it picks up a cargo of noxious effluvia and deposits it into whatever depressions it can find: basements, subway stations, Brooklyn. The collision of natural forces with manmade barriers exacerbates the problem. Concrete barriers along the shoulders turn highways into swimming pools.
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