Go fly a Kite….

Spring, it’s kite flying weather. Those poor people in mid America certainly haven’t had time for any thing but to say thank you, thank you for another near miss. But some haven't been as lucky There were reports that Dorthy's Toto landed somewhere in Indiana. Sadly, the twisters this year have been more than highly active, as were the hurricanes last fall.

The alarmists out there point to this and that which have caused the May-lay of climate changes thus causing all the carnage. Kiterna did a job on us whipping out a beautiful area and a not so beautiful city. I don’t mean to be disrespectful of the Big Easy nor the gulf coast, however there comes a time when a question needs to raised.

Ten years ago a Mississippi River flood hit and took out much of western central Illinois and the federal government step in and said NO, NO to rebuilding in a flood plain. People living there couldn’t rebuild and if they did insurance companies were to offer insurance no matter the cost. There wasn’t one company who even thought about selling in that area.

So New Orleans gets nailed and 90% of the town which is well below sea level gets submerged. Now the town is slowly rebuilding with huge grants and donations. It is hoped that they will finish in time for the next big blow will swamp them again? Logical?

Their founding fathers built the place on a swamp, then all around the town realtors and capitalists further subdivided the out laying swamp land making a killing. Then they left it to the US Army to protect family homes built a swamp that’s been sinking for year., sinking at a rate of 2 to 3 inches a year.

Town history aside, great food aside…. I would leave the question of rebuilding the Big Easy up to the insurance companies. I ‘d ask them a question…
" Are insurance companies willing to insurance New Orleans and it’s property owners?"
I think they all would sadly say… "Go fly a kite."