CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield August 21, 2021 16:07:00
There's a lot of benchmark storms that people from providence, rhode island remember, we had gloria in 1985, bob in 1991 and sandy back in 2012. that is a storm that people like to compare it to because of its impacts but look at this aerial footage of the fox point hurricane barrier. this is something they put in place to try to prevent storm surge from impacting this particular region. a good safeguard here because this can protect up to 20 feet of potential storm surge which is a threat. >> that surely is unique to a lot of other cities, hopefully that is what's going to help them out signi...