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Cuomo raising alarm about climate change on radio show.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, talking on AM radio, seems to be raising an alarm about climate change – and to question whether the city is built to withstand the kind of saltwater inundation it took overnight:
As I said to the President yesteray, we have a 100-yr flood every 2 yrs
The construction of this city did not anticipate these type of conditions -- subway, bldg foundations, 911 site nr Hudson
Gov re bldg wall to stop flooding in #Battery: wall would have to be all around #Manhattan, it was everywhere, NY Harbor, JFK, #Queens, #LI
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/30/sandy-superstorm-flooding-power-cuts