It May Be Hell, but It's Home

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Still, most folks wouldn't consider living anywhere else, despite enduring not just fullblown catastrophes but a daily grind of ravenous mosquitoes, humidity so dense it's hard to tell the air from the water, and routine flooding whenever it rains particularly hard (I once lost a car to an overflowing canal).

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It May Be Hell, but It's Home

Greenville, Mississippi

It was bound to happen -- in fact it already had. In 1719, one year after Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, established New Orleans as the capital of the French colony of Louisiana, a hurricane destr...

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