I just read at sfgate.com that New Orleans and San Fransisco have been the only cities to be destroyed by natural disasters.

Um, hello?

A category 4 hurricane with 140+ mph winds and a 16-foot storm surge wiped out a Gulf city with very little warning and pathetic preparation... sound familiar???

This was Galveston, TX in 1900, but no one seems to remember! Up to 1/3 of the city was killed (ca. 10,000 ppl) and they had to rebuild the city 17 feet higher and add a sea wall to make it viable. It did much better against a C4 hurricane a few years later.

What the hell is wrong with us!!!! Americans have absolutely no sense of history, and most of us are like children in our naive surprise that we are vulnerable.

I can see it now...

1) We'll have a catastrophic riot with thousands dead and ask ourselves, "How could this happen?" It happened before in the Draft Riots of 1863!!

2) The San Andreas fault will rupture, killing tens or hundreds of thousands, and we'll wonder the same, forgetting about San Fransisco.

3) Years or decades from now, a terrorist group will smuggle in a nuclear bomb (there is already worry that 2 nukes are INSIDE THE U.S. RIGHT NOW- see http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45203) and blow the hell out of DC, NY or LA, and we'll stand around wondering, "How could this happen to US?"... forgetting all about the devastation of 9/11.

Obviously, I'm angry about this after just reading an editorial claiming that Katrina was pretty much alone in its style and destruction. Read the book Isaac's Storm and you'll see how eerily similar Galveston and N.O. were. It makes me sad to think we are so short-sighted. It must delight our enemies.

Alex Stiner
Copywriting Solutions