"The sheer number, pervasiveness and interconnected nature of our infrastructures create an almost infinite array of high-payoff targets for exploitation by terrorists".
"When we got hit with back-to-back hurricanes, we had no beach in front of our infrastructures: A1A was wiped out," Ms. Hutchinson said, referring to storms that engulfed a busy beachfront road.
"Flooding is a natural phenomenon; it becomes a catastrophe because we humans have put ourselves and our infrastructures in the wrong place, so we have to reconquer the major floodplains and get as much vegetation in there as possible," Maire suggests.
We all lost water, we don't have good drinking water and our infrastructures are gone.
Natural hazards such as landslides, floods, rockfalls, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, sinkholes, and snow avalanches represent potential risks to our infrastructures, properties, and lives.
Sometimes it takes a disaster to show us the areas of true weakness within our infrastructures, be they communication, transportation, or electrical — and, on the flip side — they sometimes reveal applications or strengths we didn't necessarily know we had.
