shempmcgurk wrote: >--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > >>--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" >> >> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >>wrote: >> >> >>>In light of both last year's tsunami and Katrina, the issue has >>> >>> >been > > >>>brought up in the media that the loss of human life and damages >>> >>> >in > > >>>BOTH cases could have been greatly minimized had proper >>> >>> >preparation > > >>>been made. >>> >>>It wasn't that experts didn't envision that a tsunami could >>> >>> >happen > > >>>or that the levees in New Orleans could have broken, it's just >>> >>> >the > > >>>odds seemed to make it so unlikely that public policy in this >>> >>> >area > > >>>didn't make spending the millions or billions to prevent what >>> >>> >could > > >>>have been prevented. >>> >>> >>A strong hurricane hitting New Orleans was *not* >>considered that unlikely, to the contrary. >> >> > >...all the more reason there should have been better planning. > > > Unfortunately the planning needed was to move the city out of the hole it is in. That would have been impossible given the property values and cost of doing such things now day. Now that may be the only option.
BTW, I never have thought that San Francisco should be anything more than an industrial port. No residences, no businesses. Again not possible for the same reasons. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
