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Well, I live in Earthquake territory.... yet people still come to live in Los Angeles knowing that some day we might become a coral reef or at the least an island to send prisoners to. But I choose to live here because I like the weather and I grew up for 15 years of my life in the area. My family lives here and I am a family-oriented person. Even though I am fairly whitewashed culturally, there are some traditions I still keep such as family loyalty and keeping roots within the place you grew up in.
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Yes, I don't think I would want to leave this world without at least once having been to the town where Tom Arnold lives.
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quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: Most of it, I think should be moved -- like most of Galveston was moved to Houston.
I assure you that Galveston is still there. It's about seventeen feet higher above sea level than it was, and it now has a sea wall. Some industry did shift towards Houston, but that would have likely happened anyway due to the oil boom and the completion of the Houston Ship Channel. The island is still home to about 60,000 residents and is a major economic player in the area.
New Orleans does not lend itself to moving very easily. It's the fourth-busiest port in this nation. It's near the mouth of the most important river in this country. About the "safest" place north you could recreate that extensive infrastructure would be Baton Rouge, and I doubt they have the room or desire to do so. On top of that, you have a ton of oil refineries, storage tanks, and pipelines in New Orleans. Many are there because they can conveniently connect to the oil rigs out in the Gulf of Mexico. To say relocating and rebuilding them elsehwere would be a hassle would be a vast understatement.
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Well obviously they'll figure something out, since we all know Joseph Sisko will have a successful restaurant there by the mid-24th century...
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Also, think how much the sea levels would drop if one removed the eastern end of Cuba and dug a state-long, mile-wide ditch up Florida. Up a-bubbling would come the remains of cities long forgotten.
(Nope, no ill effects from the '86 nuclear fallout here, save for an isolated case of brain damage leading to chronic Trek addiction. Might also have had something to do with TOS being re-aired here for the first time since the sixties, though.)
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The terrible thing (aside from all those dead people nad destruction and Jerry Falwell not being among the victims) is that when they do rebuild, the seedy charm will likey be replaced with suburbia, condos and (worst of all) a Disneyesque family-friendly version of Burbon Street.
Possibly called Kol-Aid street or something equally nonoffensive.
Plus, I know someone that lost his apartment there....it's gone. Everythng he owned, his diplomas, clothers...the whole sheebang.
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