After Irma, What Can Cities Do to Be Safer?

After it had raged through the Caribbean, sucked the sea back from the Bahamas coast and devastated the tiny island of Barbuda, Hurricane Irma tore up the Florida panhandle Sunday night cutting power for four million people en route to Tampa. A map produced by the U.S. National Hurricane Center showed that along parts of the State's southwestern coast storm surge flooding could surpass nine feet; already, parts of downtown Miami were a couple of feet underwater.