Gunner Asch on Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:16:15 -0700
typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 02:21:49 -0700, "Steve B"
wrote:


"CaveLamb" wrote

You know there is not a single house left on Bolivar, don't you?
The hurricane wiped it clean as a whistle and I heard noone was allowed
to rebuild on the peninsula...

I heard that it was because they couldn't get it zoned as a zoo. From the
start, like many a seaside retreat, built without much forethought, an
accident waiting to happen. Over history, countless little and bigger
communities wiped out after being built in places they had no business being
built in.

Steve

New Orleans comes to mind as well..in that catagory.

The French at least had enough smarts to build on top of the only
local hill...

tschus
pyotr

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