Anniversaries, 09/11 and Hurricane Ike

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Originally Posted by ColinEssex

Families are a pain, friends are usually false and homes can be bought and sold.

To quote a dutch song:
Vriendschap is een illusie, Vriendschap is een droom een pakketje schroot met een dun laagje chroom.

Or rougly
Friendship is an Illusion, friendship is a dream, a lot of scrap with a nice but paper thin layer of chrome...

It has been my moto in life for a long time after royally beeing screwed over by people I considered "good friends".

Family is mostly around when
a) You dont want/need them around
b) They want something from you

Then when you need them, oops they are to busy ....

Originally Posted by ColinEssex

Gotta be better than sticking around in a city that can flood at any time. Especially if the President cuts expenditure on keeping the levees up to scratch.

Talking about wierdness, we have Schiphol airport here near Amsterdam. There are some nice villages that you fly over as you land on or depart from Schiphol.

You guess what people complain about airplane noise? Those that have lived there for 10 years or less.

Guess how long Schiphol has been on that very spot, with the airplanes flying the exact same route?? 50 years or more!

offcourse they didnt wonder why the average house on the "schiphol route villages" is roughly 10% cheaper....
Or stuff like that, then they come and live there and there is this "new thing" called airplanes flying overhead???!!!

I think it is the same with New Orleans and other such area's... If I know I am moving to an area where I have increased risk of Flooding/storms/etc, I should not be complaining about it when the floods do happen.

Now the risk of flooding is present in 50+% of the Netherlands, which is why I have my personal doubts about staying, then again we have to pay "levee tax" to actually maintain the Levee's and such to keep the water away... so our government SHOULD be maintaining them and stuff.... making sure we keep "our feet dry"

Here is hoping the Netherlands stay "above water"