Talk:1955 Atlantic hurricane season

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[edit] Shelters

I think hurricane season should have more under ground shelters whitch could save more peoples lives so the population in that country would have more chance of living. Hurricanes are very powerful so for the rise of water you should have much more higher barries so in can prefent flooding in the country of america and the other countrys that have HURRICANES seasons. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.23.232.194 (talk • contribs) .

While I don't claim to have any expertise in the field, I think I can safely say that is completely impractical to have government-run hurricane shelters that serve no other purpose (schools, post offices and other government buildings are usually used in an emergency). The problem is that hurricanes do not strike any particular area very often. Even Florida is hit by a notable hurricane only once every few years, and almost everywhere else affected by hurricanes receives a major hit less than once in a decade. Furthermore, even in Florida, a hurricane that strikes the Florida panhandle will have no effects on the east coast and vice versa - each individual area is hit about once a decade. Keeping hurricane shelters running throughout 6 months of the year for a storm that hits once every decade is just not worthwhile. Government needs to work on disaster preparation, but not by building shelters. As for barricades - what do you barricade? Do you build a wall all along the entire Gulf coast and the east coast south of Virginia? Beachgoers won't like that, and it would cost well into the hundreds of billions of dollars. Some places do have flood protection. New Orleans was obviously the most notable example; the problem was not that protection didn't exist but rather that the protection was insufficient, and the city is in about the worst possible location for a city. - Cuivienen 05:42, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Todo

This article needs better balance in the storms section. The most significant storms have practically nothing on them. Jdorje 06:30, 2 February 2006 (UTC)