Holy Hurricanes!

I just thought I would comment on the crazy amount of hurricanes the past couple of years.

I grew up in a town called La Porte, which is a suburb of Houston, and is located on the water. In all the years that I lived there, there was only 2 bad storms in like 20 years, and one wasn't even a hurricane (Alicia and Tropical Storm Allison, Respectively).

My whole point on this is that I was reading a message board about hurricanes and someone made the comment basically, that everyone who lived on the coast was just just stupid people asking for trouble. That is just ridiculous. Had my husband not gotten a job up here, it would have never occurred to me to move. People don't think about the location as much, especially if you grow up there. You live there not because it is on the coast, but because your family lives there, and that's where your barber is, and where your favorite restaurant is located. And for the most part you don't even think about the storms because they happen so infrequently.

That is changing a bit, since there might be more named storms this year than any other year in recorded history, if it goes past 21 named storms. Citizens along the coast might start to think a little bit more about where they live. But don't call them stupid for wanting to live in a place they have lived their whole lives. Up until this point there hasn't been many major storms along the Louisiana and Texas coasts, so no one has had a reason to doubt that their choice of living wasn't the best choice to be made.

There is a natural disaster waiting to happen in every part of the United States....tornadoes, hurricanes, wild fires, blizzards, earthquakes, etc. Every part of the US needs help at different times for different reasons. We should just accept that things are are going to happen and then correct it to the best of our ability, but don't condemn people for living somewhere that they love and grew up in, because more than likely you will end up in the same basic scenario.