Originally posted by admin@Sep 8 2005, 09:48 AM
'Everybody' includes me, and I certainly don't feel sorry for anyone who decides to live on flood planes, in valleys cut out by water (slight proof that water may come again!&#33, on volcanoes, on fault lines, etc, their choice, and if they don't know the risks, then ignorance is no defence.
When I chose where to live, I took account of natural phenomena.
Ok, 'everybody except Keith' then.

Don't disagree with you, but wasn't Boscastle one of those areas where flooding had never happened before and noone foresaw it, unlike N Orleans? I too would make sure I didn't live in a flood plain and anyone who chooses to live there is a bit of a muppet (bit like an Israeli deliberately choosing to go and live in a settlement in gaza - they get everything they deserve) - but I didn't think Boscastle was actually a place like that...?