My wife is a certified weather nut. The Weather Channel is one of the most frequently watched in my house. At any given moment, you can almost guarantee that one of the three televisions in my house will be tuned to TWC.

Most recently, with the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina, and onset of Hurricane Rita there isn’t a moment that goes by that TWC isn’t being broadcast throughout my house. I’ve almost gotten to the point where I can tune it out without much effort.

But constantly hearing about it has gotten me thinking. Everybody seems worried that Rita was going to hit New Orleans and reign down more devastation. So what? Wouldn’t that make more sense? Since the area has already been decimated by the previous hurricane, and money has not yet started flowing for the rebuilding of the area, wouldn’t this be an ideal place and time for the Hurricane Rita to hit?

As opposed to tearing up other areas of the U.S., why not just mess up an already bulldozed area. We won’t have to try and divert monies to several places at one time in the rebuilding process, but rather focus our attention on the area already screwed.

How pissed would the American people be if we spent millions, if not billions, of dollars to rebuild New Orleans only to have it hit by another deadly hurricane, forcing us to start all over again?

Just something that was rolling around the old noggin  ¶ 1:56 PM