Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Preparing For The Worst

Ray Nagin, mayor of New Orleans, sure knows how to prepare for the possibility of a repeat of Katrina hitting the city he runs- he's allowing residents to rebuild wherever they like in the city, including those areas most at risk of flooding.

I've always thought that it was a somewhat unusual idea to have a city at below sea level in hurricane country but to completely ignore the threat- after that same city is devastated- and rebuild the most at risk parts again seems preposterous.

Kind of like building a sprawling metropolis on top of a major fault line.

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