You prevent these things by stopping pumping CO2 into the atmosphere thirty years ago. Failing that, you prepare for them by investing huge public funds in flood defences and hoping for the best. Or you do neither and watch Florida get washed away I guess.

and while some people *will* say (with an unbothered conscience), "who cares about FL?", the fact is that we now have hurricane-like spiral storms OVER CENTRAL EUROPE and over the continental U.S., and it's not just third world countries' poors getting fucked now.