When the levees broke.......
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BadGirl
I am so very blessed
Cheese and Rice. Those people live in a damn flood zone, knowing full well the implications of severe storms, and they did nothing to protect themselves or their assets? Regardless of their limited budget or lack of transportation, etc., they should have had at least a contingency plan of some sort on the back burner to use in an emergency.Qurious said:
There was adequate warning from weather-watchers to know the storm would be massive. If I had no personal transportation, I would have dug up coins from the sofa cushions to get bus money to get out of town.
You have GOT to be freakin' kidding me!!!Qurious said:
You're right. It's much better to sit there and drown. Can't have any unauthorized driver's behind the wheel, now can we?Qurious said:
Yes - and they punished said mayor by...re-electing him.Qurious said:
Without someone from the government to come get them, carry them and their belongings to the bus and drive them away? Are you mad???Ken King said:
Hell yeah I'm mad, mad at idiots living below sea-level b!tching about being flooded, refusing to evacuate when told to and expecting someone else to make it all better for them.vraiblonde said:Without someone from the government to come get them, carry them and their belongings to the bus and drive them away? Are you mad???
Qurious
Im On 1.
Ken King said:
As if they can help the fact of how the city is built!!! Goodness...
according to all of you, we should've expected for the youngest/oldest, poverity stricken individual to get up off their ass and leave.
Ken can you answer my question I posed to the other two?
How do you evacuate when you have nothing and know no one?
Obviously you don't. You make your way to the Wal-Mart and pick up a new TV instead.Qurious said:
mv_princess
mv = margaritaville
Dont forget to add.......you shot at people who are trying to save you.vraiblonde said:Obviously you don't. You make your way to the Wal-Mart and pick up a new TV instead.
Qurious
Im On 1.
vraiblonde said:Obviously you don't. You make your way to the Wal-Mart and pick up a new TV instead.
that was sad to see....in a time of
people arent thinking straight and just acting on impulse.Okay so what about the ones that did walk/drive miles to leave and were turned back by the Military because those from the other town didn't want them there.
Sure, I'll answer it. How do they get around on any other day, I suspect that those means were available for some time before being halted. After that it was the duty of the city to get those with no means available to safety.Qurious said:
Hell, if I'm not mistaken, the city and state even had disaster plans where the city was to take control of all transportation, busses, taxi services, air, and sea. Then they were to have used city employees to facilitate the evacuation. One problem, it doesn't work if you don't place it into operation.
The entire population of New Orleans freaked out in panic and didn't do what they were supposed to do. The state of Louisiana didn't do much better in what they were supposed to be doing. Now we, the rest of the US of A, are expected to pick up the pieces for them and do for them beyond the $100 billion plus that has been ear-marked for their rebuilding.
Maybe I would be a little more compassionate if I saw more of them doing for themselves first and a little less of the "what else are you going to do for me".