...steep, sandy hillsides adjacent to backcountry scrub are every bit as stupid a place to live as muddy, below sea level gulf coast floodplains. Any right-thinking Californians are hereby requested to not be retarded about rebuilding, and I hope you don’t get one red cent of government money if you are.
Me neither. As Harry Shearer reminds me every week, NOLA's destruction wasn't an act of God. And NOLA isn't any more environmentally ridiculous (or expensive in terms of public subsidy) than Phoenix.
Hindsight is twenty-twenty.
What were the ages of the houses on "steep, sandy hillsides"? Was there any long term planning for approving the building of said houses?
In the "muddy, below sea level" New Orleans area many of the homes were very old and lots of "planning" went into disaster prevention.
I guess I'm not liking the comparison.
Me neither. As Harry Shearer reminds me every week, NOLA's destruction wasn't an act of God. And NOLA isn't any more environmentally ridiculous (or expensive in terms of public subsidy) than Phoenix.
get; and they deserve to get it good and hard!
We'd end up sitting in others' laps rather than rocking chairs.