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Originally Posted by wittynickname
Good old 'Merica has an issue with this.
Note, I've been a weather nerd my whole life, thus: I read an article from National Geographic in high school about how New Orleans was just waiting to get destroyed by a big hurricane. The levees would fail, everything would flood, mass destruction and casualties. I graduated high school in 2001.
It's not like American cities don't have forewarning that these things can happen. We just have an entire political party who tells us that all regulations are bad and freedom-restricting so we should ignore them.
Then you have an entire American city under water and hundreds of thousands of people are displaced and people seem shocked that it could happen.
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To continue with the, ah, not too bright analogy... you now have a POTUS, that eliminated the previous Presidents order to rebuild buildings and infrastructure, to be better equipped to deal with future disasters.
So, to hell, with why, to hell with preparing for the future.
The answer is not to hire any lesbian mayors.