gimmie a F'ING BREAK! Would these POS say this after Los Angeles gets hit with a mega earthquake???? Why build homes on a damn FAULT LINE!!!!!!!!!! Why build homes in tornado alley? Why build homes in seattle near the volcano? Why build homes in the desert in Arizona and the southwest?
Why? So everyone else can listen to 'em whine and cry when the earthquake hits, the volcano erupts and what water that happened to be there dries up (a tornado is a highly localized event so it doesn't count).
Also, talking about "homes" is different than talking about a "city".
Those are all good questions. And, if people want to spend THEIR OWN money building in risky places, God bless 'em. But when they want to spend MY money doing it, that's a different story.
If L.A. were 90% destroyed by an earthquake, I wouldn't want to pay to rebuild that either.
People are always going on about why they should pay ... yadda, yadda, yadda.
I may feel this way about NOs, or any of a number of other examples, but I'm sure that some people in New Orleans might wonder why I would live (Seattle area) in a place that is directly over a major fault line surrounded by live volcanoes. I dunno, we like it.
Why do people live in "torando alley" in Oklahoma; or the severe winters in the upper portion of the U.S. The extreme heat of the Southwest or Nevada. The earthquake zone that is California?
No matter where you go, Mother Nature (in some form) is trying to kill you.
I can't see us losing a city like New Orleans; but, I have to say that those voicing the opinion that it should be moved to higher ground may have a valid point.