CW6-2501

From Environmental Technology

A) This article discussed both points of view on the issue of rebuilding in areas we pretty much know are going to get hit by weather that's going to knock things down. It seems as though the article was leaning toward the direction of these people are nuts, but maybe that's just me projecting my own feelings on what was written. It is very easy to say that these folks just need to pack it up and move away, but if someone told me I would have to relocate because they were pretty sure New Madrid was going to do its thing, they might have a fight on their hands. My poor self, with many other financially unstable people, would be just sitting their between a rock and a hard place. That's not to say that the government should have to bail me out everytime my house gets knocked down by a natural disaster, especially if I keep putting myself in the path of hurricanes. Now, building multi-million dollar hotels and homes in the paths of hurricanes falls into the catagory of people with too much money doing whatever they feel like and expecting help when they get stuck up the creek without a paddle. People on huge money making ventures who loose their shirts because they took a very risky gamble illicit very little sympathy. The article states that the populations in these areas is projected to go up. Sigh. Maybe there should be a grandfather clause. If they are aleady there, they'll get help. Anybody coming in after, well, Ivan, no help. "They" are predicting that hurricanes are just going to get nastier and come to visit more often, so if you move to these areas because of the beauty, you should have to deal with the consequences.