Reply #29: wow and why do you suppose people would do that?

[pitohui]

did you know that every great city is built on a "flood plain" or on the water for reasons of being able to transport FOOD and coal or other energy to the city?

did you know that even large important cities such as paris and tokyo and london were built on flood plains?

they had a great feature in the new orleans paper recently on the tokyo "swamp" and the levees protecting them from the double whammy of flood/earthquake -- millions upon millions of people and billions in property protected in japan without question, THEY have a social contract, you simply don't leave the other guy to drown in his own attic

you know, it's funny that we supposedly won the world war and yet the guy who was bombed and had nothing has turned out to have more "can do" spirit than america