Posted on 04/12/2011 9:10:18 AM PDT by edcoil
These are 600 year old coastline markers in Japan
“High dwellings are the peace and harmony of our descendants,’’ the stone slab reads. “Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point.’’
(Excerpt) Read more at articles.boston.com ...
Agree. WOW
It’s a hoax. It actually says...
“Eat at Cho’s”
Saw this on the news last week.
Fried lice.
A really great article the issue is man’s inability to assess risks until they are imminent.
bttt
Mankind sometimes ignores the markers of history and in the end, have paid a dear price.
Or, in this case, the POST
“Do not build any homes below this point.”
How about nuclear reactors?
Need some of those signs in New Orleans.
This a rich opportunity to do research on “group think”. If it was only one person/family looking to build below the flood line they would probably think twice. But they see a whole city down there and feel there’s safety in numbers. After all, it can’t happen to all of us. But it did! Many times over.
"Don't build a city here, Coon-ass".....
that's for sure:
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816.
The French Quarter built on high ground: Very little damage.
The Garden District built 100 years ago on lower ground with buildings on 3 foot high foundations: Flooding that did not reach the top of the foundations.
Neighborhoods built more recently on even lower ground: Devastated by flooding.
A good lesson for the current budget debate...
Riveting the chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers . .
Ha . . . a perfect description of a GOVERNMENT JOB! - and having to work so many hours in a day that there’s no time to even think about getting rid of these leading government chain riveters at the top at the voting booth.
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