I know this may sound callous, but when I saw this thread and before I opened it up, I thought it might be about the recent tsunami disaster.

First, many people stayed in the danger area up to 2 hours after they felt the tremors of an earthquake. Then after the water receded away from its normal level, exposing more beach area, people went back to survey the damage. Then the second lethal wave hit, killing many of those people.

Now we (with financial assistance) and they are going to rebuild in the same areas. Sure it may only happen once each hundred years; that is what people that rebuild in floodplains say in the U.S.

Unfortunately there is just so much arable land in this world and the many poor people who lost everything have nowhere else to go or to make a living…a major conundrum of human life.

Human population growth and the concurrent overuse of natural resources are the 2 most immediate problems facing our existence on this earth.

This was just an analogy of the flooded street situation, only on a grand, global scale…

Cruiser (who consciously limited his number of offspring (1) to one less than the replacement rate)