[Sweetjustusnow]

Remember Pompeii?

Life is like a bowl of choclates. You never know what you'll get. Mother nature is in charge. You will not stop the world from it's groaning and heaving, lifting, sinking or changing. We live with it or die by it. As it was in the begging and will be.......... :)

[zencat]

Life is like a bowl of choclates.

Isn't that a box of chocolates? Or a bowl of cherries?

[tortoise]

Mother nature is in charge. You will not stop the world from it's groaning and heaving, lifting, sinking or changing.

Of course not. Nobody is saying that natural disasters won't happen eventually everywhere. But it is stupid to waste taxpayer money and tempt the Fates by building a city with a giant 'Kick Me!' sign taped to it.

The value of New Orleans (its port) can be rebuilt with a tiny fraction of its prior baggage if good sense dictated construction rather than whimsical nostalgia.