LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: MAYBE WE SHOULD MOVE TO TIBET

Dear Editor:

Regarding the recent comment in Speak Out about the person who thinks the people of Dutchtown should know better than to live in a flood prone area. I feel that person was on the right track; people should not live in areas that can bear the brunt of Mother Nature. This goes for the people in the south with their hurricanes, California with their earthquakes and mudslides, and the Northwest and Northeast have too much snow.

The Midwesterners should know better than to live where there are tornadoes, Hawaii has volcanoes, the Southwest is using all of its underground water to feed the rest of the United States causing sinkholes, and every town, including New Orleans that is 10 feet below the top of the river, near a waterway, has to contend with the possibilities of flooding.

Let me see, now I think I have it narrowed down to the only place people should live: a Tibetan monastery in the Himalayas (although even that could a pose a problem; the abominable snowman has been sighted in the area).

JOANN MOORE

Dutchtown