Quebec floods: Why disaster will strike again

At 4 a.m. on Feb. 28, 2010, as residents slept in La Faute-sur-Mer in western France, the 80-year-old seawall built to protect their town collapsed and the ocean came pouring in.
Whipped up by 160-km/h storm winds, the waters of the frigid Atlantic surged into the dozens of homes built in a below-sea-level bowl near the beach, killing 29 mostly older residents trapped in one-storey bungalows.
Hundreds of survivors perched on their roofs for hours in the biting rain, awaiting rescue.
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