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Living so close to the coast is like a squishy reverse lottery; in any given squishy cycle it's not all that likely that you will lose, but when your number comes up you are screwed. And it's not just New Orleans; all over the US and all over the world people like living on the coast. Some do so for the good squishy reason that it is their livelihood, but others do because they like being able to play in the ocean. They forget that the ocean is a powerful thing and sometimes it can play with you. New Orleans isn't even on the coast; our founders weren't quite that stupid. It's pretty far inland, to the point that it takes cruise ships half a day to reach open water when they depart from New Orleans. New Orleans is just close enough to be in danger anyway. To our founders it was a compromise. The closer it was to the coast the more profitable it would be, but also the more often it would be destroyed and need to be rebuilt. Our neighbors in Mississippi are demonstrating how much worse it can be to live near an actual beach.
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