Quote Originally Posted by psychocat
I can't understand why anyone would return to a city that they know is in constant danger of being flattened.
You are driven out by a storm or earthquake, you return to find a destroyed home and/or business. You rebuild said home/business only for another storm/earthquake to come along and destroy all your hard work yet again.
Didn't Einstein say "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results" ?
People are crazy.
I really take offense to this, and I hear it so often, but really, the people of New Orleans have way too much pride and love for their city to just let it be destroyed and not rebuild it. So many people, including myself have lived there for their whole lives, and there's just nowhere else like it. Everywhere I go, outside of the New Orleans tri-city area just feels different and wrong somehow.

I wouldn't call this insanity. I would just call it love. I've never seen any place where the people have as much pride in their city as New Orleans does.

Not to mention that if we didn't keep rebuilding, we would lose one of the largest most important ports in America.

Could you honestly say, that you would just abandon the only place that you can really call home?