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Just because Katrina was the perfect storm - a catastrophic combo of the wrong hurricane in the wrong place at the wrong time - doesn't mean that history can't repeat itself, leaving another city obliterated by another tempest. It can.

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STONERS
May 31, 2007, 2:26 p.m.
Among them: Galveston, Texas, sitting uneasily by the Gulf of Mexico, its residents limited to a single evacuation route; Miami, full of elderly people and others who might be trapped; and New York City, long spared a major storm but susceptible to a calamity of submerged subways and refugees caught in horrendous traffic jams.
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June 1, 2007, 7:29 a.m.
"Census Bureau estimates that 35 million people - 12 percent of the population - live in the coastal counties most threatened by Atlantic hurricanes. That figure has more than tripled since 1950, and the Census isn't even counting the Northern coastal states. And what we now have strewn across the coast is a bunch of McMansions"
Galveston, Texas - I've been to the city. There is no way I would live there.
The coastal areas are over-developed. This can only lead to disaster. How many times are we going to pay to reconstruct areas hit by these storms?
Isn't it time we tell people who want to live on the coast that they better have enough insurance to cover any losses?
Frankly, the same goes for people who live along rivers that flood - many year after year.