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Pastimes : Hurricanes, Tornadoes and Other Natural Disasters -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (607)	9/9/2005 2:35:57 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1460

New Orleans -- and the entire Gulf coast area -- has a long history of rebuilding after hurricanes. My mother was just telling me that the vast majority of gracious old homes along the Gulf coast around Biloxi and Gulfport were wiped out by the unnamed hurricane of 1947. She was born there in 1935, so remembers that. I remember the losses caused by Camille, that made me feel so sad that I never liked going back there. But they rebuilt -- not bigger and better than ever, but definitely bigger. They'll come back. I know that the vast majority of Americans think they're insane. But think about it. Yes, hurricanes are terribly destructive. But the really bad ones are typically spread out by decades. In New Orleans' entire 300 year history, nothing like this ever before. Those are not bad odds if you are the gambling sort. I can't condemn them -- we live close to Ground Zero #2 for Al Qaeda -- two days until the anniversary of 9/11.