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The Daily Gripe!

9/7/06

Being the opinionated person that I am; I know you didn't think I was like that. :)  I decided that I would share some of them with you, more for fun than anything else, and usually on a daily basis.  Hence "The Daily Gripe".  I have also set up an email account dailygripe@macsmodeling.com especially for anyone to send their "Gripe" to me, and I will put it up along with your name, unless you want to be anonymous.

 

Although the site is limited to F1 models the "Daily Gripe" is open to everything in the World.

 

Today's gripe:   Choosing a place to live

 

This may be a sensitive issue for some.

 

Anyway, there are some areas known for disasters, Florida the Eastern and Southern seaboards for Hurricanes, that strip from the Gulf coast up through Texas known as Tornado Ally.

 

I mean these are areas that regularly have Tornadoes and Hurricanes, but people choose to live there, WHY?  I don't quite understand.

 

New Orleans, why would you want to live there knowing it is BELOW Sea Level and it gets hit by severe weather all the time.  It is built on reclaimed land, but I guess the people who did it were pretty lazy.  "If we build a levy around this land we can live here".  Umm!  Smart idea. NOT!

 

Don't get me wrong, I feel for the people in New Orleans that lost everything in Katrina, but WHAT ARE YOU THINKING PEOPLE!?! It was bound to happen!  And now what!?! Your going to move back in!  It's going to happen again!  It's not like lightening!  A Hurricane will hit again! You need to burry the city under millions of tons of dirt and build it up above Sea Level, if you want to live there again.  That would at least make more sense!

 

Choosing to live in the Keys, WHY?  they get hit by Hurricanes all the time.  You want to spend your life rebuilding every year?  I don't get it.

 

Then there is building your house overhanging a cliff on the Pacific Coast. Now that's a really SMART idea! NOT!  One decent Earthquake and the house is in the ocean.

 

I have been in places while Hurricanes, Tornadoes and Earthquakes are taking place.  In my opinion the scariest is a Hurricane.  You know it's there days before and you wait to see what it's going to do, but at the last minute it changes it's mind and hits land somewhere else.  But you have had plenty of time to get away, but nobody does.

 

Tornadoes, you know they are around by the color of the sky.  You have no idea what they are going to do at all except.....a lot of damage.  Not much point in running as there is nothing consistent about their movement.

 

Living where Earthquakes are seems to be the best place.  You never know when one is going to hit, so you don't worry.  It covers such a vast area, you cannot escape it anyway, even if you knew.  Then its over with in seconds, which does seem like forever.

 

I choose to live in Arizona. :)  Not much to go wrong here.  An occasional Dust Storm, but nothing life threatening.

 

 

Mac

 

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Comments.

 

Why do people choose to live where doom and destruction loom?  Well, it's in our heritage, bred into our DNA.  Take the pilgrims.  They landed at Plymouth rock and there they stayed, with no heed to the dangers the New England winters posed.  And what happened?  Many of them starved and froze to death. They certainly knew enough about weather and navigation to know that they had settled in an area that was bound to have brutal winters, but they stayed anyway.  If they had sailed even a few hundred miles south to, let's say what is now the Virginias, they could have settled in a much more temperate climate and many more would have survived.  They made it all the way across the Atlantic and couldn't be bothered to stock up the ships and move south?  We are descended from them so it's no wonder we make bad geographical choices.

Steve

 

So your saying we are descended from a bunch of idiots. :)  I think we are still idiots. :)  Mac