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Originally Posted by Melanie68
People have always lived near water (transportation, resources e.g.).
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There's a difference between choosing a site near water for settlement and choosing a site underwater. Choosing one that's also in the path of hurricanes makes the situation even worse.
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Originally Posted by Melanie68
The Sacramento delta region is at a very high risk of the same thing. Many old levees in danger of breaking and the all of the new building in the area near levees means a lot of people at risk should a levee break happen.
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So there's one other place that's in a situation sort of as bad as new orleans, so what? Even if it repeats itself, it's not a natural disaster in the first place, it's an engineering disaster.
