new york wall Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 28 Jun 2019 14:55:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New York is Building a Wall to Hold Back the Ocean https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-york-building-wall-hold-back-ocean-20190626/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-york-building-wall-hold-back-ocean-20190626/#respond Fri, 28 Jun 2019 14:50:30 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=68665 When Superstorm Sandy slammed into the East Coast in 2012, New York City was devastated. Winds blew in at 80 mph, and storm surges pushed the ocean more than 9 feet above normal levels in Staten Island. Homes were leveled, subways flooded, and coastlines destroyed; 2 million people were left without power. Of the 43 […]

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