We have all watched in the last five year the amount of time and effort it takes to clean up after a massive Hurricane. The flying debris can be picked up fast and removed, but the flooding, well that is a whole other story indeed. Flooding damage is always substantial both from rain and storm surges. But what if we took a new approach to the clean up?

What if we called in DARPA and contracted with US Robotics to build giant SUV size RoboVacuums? We would put hydro-twisters underneath and equipment similar to street sweepers and let them go cleaning things up?

Recently an online think tank took up this issue and considered some of the possibilities as Swift from Las Vegas stated;