Posted on 03/01/2010 2:39:29 PM PST by Kartographer
Chilean authorities are struggling to maintain order, distribute supplies, and rescue survivors after Saturday's powerful earthquake that killed more than 700 people and damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes and buildings. President Michelle Bachelet is attempting to rally her nation in the face of tragedy and devastation, while appealing to the international community for assistance.
Shock and grief have given way to desperation and lawlessness in some areas hardest-hit by the 8.8-magnitude earthquake. Many looters made off with food and basic supplies. Others saw an opportunity for large-scale theft, carrying away home appliances on their backs
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Carrie P. Snow
Great hopefully they want put in another Pinochet....
Wecome to the USA.
If just feel like getting a new television, you should be shot.
Lets remember the civility of NYC on the days following the attacks on 9/11/01. No widespread looting, civil people helping out their fellow man.
That’s the country _I_ live in.
Yes, always a good idea to be prepared. Obviously, if somebody’s looting drinking water and food for their children, they did a poor job preparing.
Or, it’s also possible their stored food and water are under a collapsed building.
How could there be any ‘looting’ on 9-11?
Please elaborate.
Possible, but I give you dollar from everyone that has prepared (under rummble or not) if you give me a ten cents for that were not.
Of course that’s though I don’t see mircowaves, tv, cell phones and so on as needed survival supplies.
So that’s where the New Orleans refugees ended up. I thought they went to Houston.
I stand corrected: My mind must have filtered those moments out.
Yes, that's why I said people stealing those should be shot.
Are the Chilean citizens allowed to privately own firearms there?
“Or, it’s also possible their stored food and water are under a collapsed building.”
Then they’d be dead (remember, it was the middle of the night). The point is that very few buildings really collapsed (relatively speaking), and most people are simply cut off from their supply lines. Supply lines. I’ll just go down the street to the store to buy my milk and meat after the big one - no problem for me (that is until 100,000 people get the same idea, and the trucks don’t show up).
Here in Houston, my wife got on my case when she saw me with all of these maps sprawled out as Hurricane Rita was approaching (of traffic jam fame). She essentially said: “What’s your problem, we’ll just take highway 10 out of the city” That works fine when 1 million other vehicles DON’T have the same idea, at the same time. The traffic engineers quickly learned that you cannot evacuate 2 million vehicles on 4 lanes of freeway (although, if they’d had only looked at Los Angeles they could have very quickly calculated the capacity of these highways). In the end, we got to San Antonio (200 miles) in 8 hours...while others turned back after going 50 miles in 36 hours. The maps worked.
Not easy, but you have to think for yourself and realize that what is normal today very possibly WILL NOT be normal after something like an Earthquake, or a Hurricane, or a Dollar Crash. It will be a brand new world - and your support systems very likely will be GONE.
“Then they’d be dead (remember, it was the middle of the night).”
Good Post! You are right it was the middle of the night. If that many buildings completely collapsed the death toll would be in the thousands not as it is right now in the ‘hundreds’. Just more ‘sheeple’ expecting that someone will come along and take care of them.
LOL
And every time you cash your paycheck you buy an extra box of ammo (one can NEVER have too munh ammo) or some extra canned goods. Soon enough you will be far more prepared than most, if not nearly all) of your neighbors.
If you live in Spanish Fork UT, all bets are off.....
Looks like you can. But it has to be registered
http://www.survivalblog.com/2009/02/letter_re_gun_ownership_in_chi.html
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