“‘Hurricane Sandy is a wake-up call to all of us in this city and on Long Island,’ Malcolm Bowman, professor of physical oceanography at State University of New York at Stony Brook, told NBC’s Richard Engel, who surveyed the damage from a police helicopter Thursday. ‘That means designing and building storm surge barriers like many cities in Europe already have.'”

Source:Hurricane Sandy provides ‘wake-up call’ for cities at risk of flooding – Rock Center with Brian Williams