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Originally Posted by OBW
I know that I will get grief for this, but New Orleans was a disaster waiting to happen. And since many went back, it will happen again. There is something fundamentally flawed about building houses — or anything for that matter — in what should have been a brackish lake lower than the land (and water) around it, and whose bottom was lower than the sea.
It is like jumping off the Empire State Building and cursing God for gravity.
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I already did get grief. In 2004 I was introduced to a new coworker at my firm. He said he was from New Orleans and I responded "Well, that city will be gone when the next hurricane hits". That comment was understood to mean that I didn't like him or some other nonsense. As it turns out he boasted that his father was wealthy and owned a lot of real estate, all of which was in the 9th ward. Oh well, if he had been more interested in what I was saying rather than getting offended his father might still own a lot of real estate.