Charleston, Pt 3

[bigdoug]

I saw something on tv about people in New Orleans still rebuilding their homes, years later. It made me think of the houses on the barrier islands where we went to the beach. The barrier island was less than 10 blocks wide and all the houses on it, even the apartment buildings, were on pillars. Some of the houses were only 5 or so feet off the

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[richaarde]

JFK is big, but it's all crammed together. There isn't much room left in NYC to build a huge airport, so they made do with the space they had. I've flown to Pittsburgh Airport, which is also ginormous. I bet JFK could have fit within its bounds three times over, and I don't even know if Pittsburgh sees 1/10 of the traffic of JFK.

It's ironic that people's vacation homes on the outer banks are better-constructed than people's actual homes in New Orleans. In fact, I even wonder if it's worth rebuilding New Orleans. Geologically, it's in the worst spot possible for a large city. All the money that we spent rebuilding it could easily get washed away in another Katrina.