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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index

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To: mishedlo who wrote (39732)8/31/2005 12:16:04 PM
From: GraceZRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
No funding necessary to understand why it is that the levees were destined to fail in the advent of a major hurricane hit. One of my favorite books on the subject covered the risk exhaustively back in 1990, John Mcphee's "The Control of Nature".

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This disaster comes after years and years of foolish practices and solutions by the Army Corps of Engineers. The disaster there is a perfect example of the hubris inherent in man trying to control nature.
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