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To: Constant Reader who wrote (497)9/7/2005 10:51:42 AM
From: Rande Is  Read Replies (2) of 1118
 
How much money are we willing to spend to avoid the ensuing calamity that might never come? Do we even have that much money?

Anything done now would be too little too late. It was the responsibility of the municipal officials of all these cities to recognize looming threats. I have a market research firm. Before corporations or institutions proceed with a project, a product or a spinoff, a SWOT analysis is performed. This determines Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. Without a full understanding of these, any movement forward is merely a shot in the dark.

The buildings and homes of the many major and numerous minor cities within the sphere of influence of the New Madrid fault have already been built. Sure, strict standards can be adopted. But the damage was already done, when complacency and near-sightedness allowed permits to be pulled for the construction of so much over the past several decades. Nobody is going to go in a shore up buildings and homes there.

But I'll tell you. My home is on a hilltop in Tennessee, with bedrock lying not far below the surface (making in ground swimming pools a near impossibility in Tennessee). I think about this often, even considering a geodesic dome at one point.

But as you point out. . .There are many terrible things that can happen. We can't do much to prevent... What are you going to do? You have to live somewhere. It is unfortunate that society adopted right angles as the efficient means of construction and long flat walls as the norm. There are so many better solutions. But without long flat walls, where do we put that new sofa?

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