Sim City

Did any of you play Sim City 2000 when you were growing up? (or still play when you have the opportunity, like I do?). I would always try to build a map so that I could place my city on a coast somewhere, just because I knew that by developing a seaport I could build a strong industry and my city would kick ass. However, it was inevitable that I would spend most of my money trying to develop the place, then right when my financial coffers were at their emptiest, a hurricane (one of eight or so disasters programmed into the game) would come and decimate my city. I had no money left to rebuild the infrastructure and make the place habitable again, so the city would disappear into the bowels of my hard drive. The only way I could build a successful city was to either get extremely lucky or to disable the disasters.
Unfortunately, in real life you can't disable the disasters. And as I see the images of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina this week (I would link to a news story here but I don't know how), the thought of those SimCity games pops into my head. How do these cities get rebuilt? At great financial and physical cost...more than I can comprehend. Not to mention the thousands of people who have to put their lives together. Let's just hope that those cities don't become mere afterthoughts, never to be touched again, like those dozens of simulated cities that now take up mere blots on my hard drive.

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just wanted to post something so i could see what it looked like on the screen