They didn't even know they had the potential to be flooded out because they lived inside of an area protected by levees.
The big question is whether this will be short-lived, linked solely to the crisis, or turn out to be something more structural.
The fear is that, even though job losses have been contained through such pay curbs, the resilience of late 2009 may turn out to be short-lived.
That may yet turn out to be a short-lived bargain at the taxpayer's expense.
With the usual annuity an insurance company absorbs the risk that buyers will turn out to be unexpectedly long-lived.
If the rye craze turns out to be a short-lived fad, companies will be faced with a glut of rye.
But Mr Tonelson goes on to argue that the recovery, in manufacturing and elsewhere, could be short-lived when the stimulus money runs out.
Barring a constitutional amendment, it seems that the line-item veto may turn out to be one of America's shorter-lived fiscal experiments, at least at presidential level. (Forty-three state governors have this power, and it is under no threat there.) Despite its controversy, the veto does nothing to change the basic structure of budget-making.
The man turned out to be 48-year-old Gocha Makhtadze, who still lived at home with his mother and survived off of her pension.
And the lesson she would want us to leave with today -- a lesson she lived out each and every day -- is that we can all be first in service.
If we had lived by this simple principle over the past several years, we would be facing out-year deficits that would be roughly 2 percent of the economy, and debt as a share of the economy would be declining rather than rising.
If this were a very short-lived recession, the normal concern about getting infrastructure projects out the door quickly would be salient, and that's what motivated the quotation you just read.
There are various advantages cited for this type of reactor, including the claim that it can be stopped easily if things get out of hand, and that it produces less long-lived nuclear waste than the uranium-fuelled fission reactors that are currently in common use.
In terms of the location, he said some people could currently walk out of their garden onto their allotment and would be hardest-hit but others who lived further away would see no difference.
But leaf through the tomes of some of the regulators who lived through the crisis, and you start to wonder whether our tax-dodging heroes might be out of jobs today if the public hadn't fronted a bailout.
As with all online search technology, Zoom still suffers from garbage-in, garbage-out syndrome. (One out of those six results turned up a guy who lived in Florida.) Company searches can be even shoddier.
It found that in 78 out of 151 local NHS areas people with dementia who lived in care homes were more likely to be admitted to hospital for an avoidable reason than people without the condition.
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