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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (171067)	9/22/2005 1:12:20 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Well, developers took over the marshes around NO allowing the entire power of the storm to swamp it. Developers did the same with the Florida Everglades which used to act as natural sponges, cleaning water before it reached the ocean. There's a reason these areas developed as they did but we're not sure what they are so we ignore them whenever possible. Again, it's infrastructure not land. Land is obviously plentiful but who wants to live in most places? Mongolia looks sparsely populated, Montana looks sparsely populated....any land rush in those places? People want to live where other people already live in a way they wish to live themselves. Too many people want to live outside SF or in Manhattan and (who knows why) Las Vegas instead of pitching a tent in Nebraska. We're not tigers or eagles, we're SHEEP.