"The winds came later on and that has saved a significant amount of flooding," he said.
The Port Authority, which runs the PATH service, said at the time that it "experienced an unprecedented amount of flooding, damaging multiple types of equipment, including those for signaling and train control".
As the Port Authority says on its Web site, the three stations "experienced an unprecedented amount of flooding, damaging multiple types of equipment, including those for signaling and train control.
There's been a substantial amount of damage to roads, a substantial amount of flooding in agricultural areas raising serious concerns about crops, and then of course with the standing water and the flow of water the increased concern about diarrhoea and disease, particularly cholera.
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In general, it found that the utilities had not protected their facilities against the amount of flooding that the storm caused, and that they did not have an adequate system for estimating within two days of a storm how long it would take to restore power.
"If successful however, it will significantly reduce the amount of flooding in this area during the high tides.
In Ad Hoc networking, cluster-based communication protocol can reduce large amount of flooding packets in route establishment process.
But he said it would not carry enough water when compared to the size of the flood plain - even if the capacity of the river were increased by 50%, it is a relatively small amount when compared to the amount of flooding in the area.
Even though the proposed cluster hierarchy may reduce the amount of flooding for dissemination of routing information, as only the cluster-heads are responsible for this task, the process of maintaining these clusters involves additional overheads, in particular the election of an appropriate cluster-head node.
