Reply #28: Should it??.......YES [View All]

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Will it...I don't know, sadly. :-(

Let me say first off that I was not directly affected by this, not even close to what the people there are, meaning I had no immediate family there. I do/did have some friends in Gulfport that have/had a house on the beach that I still have not heard from...but I do have a lot of love and fond memories of NO and the MS Gulf Coast and I am in shock right now...I guess I will go through the stages the same as when someone you love dies....so bear with me and cut me some slack.

OK, so should it be rebuilt? I say YES. I qualify this by saying that I believe with all of the money, resources and technolgy that we possess as the world's most powerful nation that it CAN be done, and made resistant to these type of disasters. I believe it, I really do. Some of you may flame me for saying this by saying that it is sinking into the ground, or that I have no right to say this as I do not live there...but if Katrina never happened, would you have been arguing this and saying that it should be moved? No, you wouldn't...of course not. When will this 'sinking' occur? 10 years? A hundred years? A thousand years?...No one knows for sure. Is it really happening? Was it going to all of a sudden sometime next year just sink into the ground? Isn't California supposed to break off into the Pacific? Isn't Manhattan in the same sort of trouble?...We are talking about people's home(s) here, it should be rebuilt for them if they desire, and I believe they do.

Now, the sinking factor aside, NO can and should be made hurricane 'proof'. Yes it would take some time and effort and lots of money and pure determination, but it is possible. Not only is it an important city culturally and economically, but I think that if we give in and abandon it then we have lost a part of ourselves that we can NEVER regain.

The question to me isn't SHOULD it be rebuilt, IMO the question is WILL it?

Again, this is one man's opinion, a man who is not a NO resident and does not claim to know what these people's thoughts are...This is simply my opinion.






Besides, if we do not rebuild, the hurricanes win. (a little humor to lighten the mood!)