Re: OT: New New Orleans?

The city of Mobile AL got it's name because they kept moving it as it got
washed out.



"ChipRider" <ChipRider@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2005083110450016807%ChipRider@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> On 2005-08-31 08:17:03 -0600, "art_classmn" <art_classmn@xxxxxxxxx> said:
>
>> I tihk people just accept the fact that every hundred years or so, the
>> place gets completely wiped out.
>
> Hey, we're poker players. We know that although you get Aces once every
> 221 hands on average, sometimes you get them back to back. If they
> rebuild NO it could get wiped out again next year.
>
> There is precedent for moving it -- some whole towns were relocated to
> higher ground after the massive floods in the midwest a few years ago.
> There's a whole lot of difference between moving a town of 1,000 people
> and moving a city the size of NO, though.
>
> I expect them to rebuild it. Emotional attachments will trump logic.
>
>> I have never understood why people live in flood plains. They know the
>> risk and just accept it.
>
> The capacity for the human mind to not think about the bad things that can
> happen is considerable. Why else would anyone continue to live in San
> Francisco or Manhattan?
>
> --
> ChipRider
> Somewhere on the Range
>


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