Poppinjay

No. Hurricanes are natural and needed where I live, coastal area with strong protections over development. If we didn't have them, the area's wildlife would suffer immeasureably.

I've been through Hugo, Floyd, Dennis, Isabel, and numerous TS's. They aren't really all that bad. Katrina was a fluke. NO was a city ruled by old time politics where levees are built with the right amount of "soap", with the tacit approval of FEMA. We, as a country, learned mighty fast that that's no way to run a city.

On most of the east coast, the land has been shaped to take on hurricanes and quickly relieve afterwards. It's the parts where rampant development has been allowed that suffer.

Some may find it odd to hear that many native coasties actually hope for a hurricane landfall. But they are needed to maintain the natural flow of our habitat.

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