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In a letter on fark.com, a New Orleans farker (who weathered the storm OK) posted a long message. He noted that they learned on the day of the hurricane that some neighborhoods were flooding... not due to levee breaks, but because the pumps in those neighborhoods were NOT RUNNING.
The pump operators evacuated.
The pumps could not be operated unmanned, because they would overheat.
Just another data point in tw's search for "design for failure".
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