Posted on 08/14/2004 2:02:37 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
It is with a heavy heart that I write this. I have no idea what is wrong with people today in this society and this country. My example I am going to use is a really really sad one.
I was in Plant City as of Thursday night which for those who do not know is just north east of Tampa/St.Pete. I went down there to help a friend of mine who owns a house who happens to be a single mother of a 2 yr old girl. She needed help boarding up her house and sandbags etc.
All finished by 2 am there and I decided I was going to go over to a portion of Tampa called locally "New Tampa", where another friend of mine was readying her home up with her brothers. It was only 30 mins away from Plant City and definitely in the "expected"path of Charley.
I wound up falling asleep there around 4 am and woke up around 6:30 am to see that everything was still a go and a green light for Tampa. We had a few more things to move outside and the sandbags because it is a low lying area that floods from regular storms.
We went out to grab something to eat at a local Wendy's where the wait in the drive thru was about 45 mins long considering everything local had closed already by 11 am. When we got back to the house we were watching storm coverage and then about 20 mins later noticed the shift in the storm. We saw that the storm itself was more than likely going to move into the Cape Coral area.
I decided it was time for me to make my decision and it was quick. 10 seconds. I got into my car and drove over to my friends home in Lakeland. Unfortunately by the time I got over there he had hauled it over to a friends house in Arcadia.
I knew I was racing against time on I-4 and that Charley was breathing down my neck. But was more than confident I would make it back to Melbourne in time before Charlie hit Central Florida...and I did.
With about 60 mph winds everything was ok here and we even managed to keep power the entire time. So we were spared and were lucky...our friends 30 miles to the west of us couldn't say the same.
So all of my phone calls were put into friends in Naples where I used to live up til March of this year,Fort Myers,Cape Coral,and Bonita Springs. All had no power and were trying to save cell batteries but were alive. But here is where the BARF ALERT comes in.
3 of them managed to in the span of 60 seconds say "this is Jeb Bush's storm...he really screwed this one up","your boy Jeb is going to have a lot of explaining to do with this one","I am sure Jeb and George will come play the healer for their own injuries they caused."
I was sicken to my stomach. Just not that these people were my friends and usually very educated and well spoken...BUT THEY MEANT IT!
I said listen...this storm was all over the news for a week. The hurricane warning had been issued within 36 hrs...evacuation orders were given...this is mother nature...science..you can't predict this kind of thing and we all saw it with our own eyes..the storm turned right...not Jeb Bush forcing it to the coast.
Every single person bought into the entire "the Bush's never know what to do when something is going on ala the morning of 9-11",obviously a Michael Moore style of brainwashing that people have sickingly adopted from his film.
If it was not bad enough to hear it was when I turned on local talk radio and listened to my fellow Floridians bash the national hurricane center,the national weather service,jeb bush,and the media for causing such huge errors in the state and ignoring other possible tracks. That Jeb Bush spoke with arrogance and cockiness that the storm was definitely going to hit Tampa.
Last I checked the NHC saved millions of lives by posting updates every 3 hrs...the national weather service saved millions of lives by posting tornado warnings and flood watches and warnings,and Jeb Bush was up for 3 straight days and still is down south trying to do whatever a HUMAN BEING can do.
The nerve of a reporter to ask him "you are down here and the cameras are here...but do you really mean it when you say you are going to make sure people get help? Do you mean it?"
Or CNN saying "well the president's trip with his brother will be more about not wanting to lose Florida and the 27 electoral votes than showing compassion", I have absolutely had it with this kind of crap. I really pray for humanity to come along one day and to stop blaming everyone else for their problems and for things out of all of our control...like category 4 hurricanes.
I'm still putting those ugly clips on da bangs. I liked being a Red, but it fades way fast. Deep Red will look great on you.
Twigs? Leaves? Hmmmmm.
Being that I admittedly am somewhat vain, I try to stay out of the sunlight as that will make my hair turn red.
Crimson red.
Looks hideous on me.
Especially since I usually look like a vampire.
Bingo! Northeast, retired lefty union types with no idea what semi-tropical life is about. They are stupid, gullible and arrogant, and long constantly for how they do it "up north."
I heard a local newscaster down that way say that he'd never seen anything like this rapid response in all the other hurricanes he's covered.
I wish...I really wish.
I have no use for communist tools or sympathizers at this point. They are getting us killed and would rape our children and behead us themselves if they thought they could lord power over the conservatives in America...
People are living a totally vacant reality world in the RAT Party...morally bankrupt and sinking real fast, in the middle of our society. Now I know why we *had* laws to subjegate perversion and delusion for castigation and treatment.
If only it weren't true.
Shep Smith has been saying over and over that it is a part of living in Florida to leave when you are told. He said it is part of being a good Florida citizen. He also says that a lot of things that need to happen are happening fast. He seemed very suprised at all that has been accomplished.
And Terzilla, too, although it's not really sporting to shoot at a tunafish in a barrel.
This list is actually a neat idea; saves loads of time...heh heh heh!
I know. My dad built homes on speculation.
lol
lil John edwards... call your office, I'm sure you can file a class action suit against someone for this....
I wish I was kidding. It was even too much for one of the posters over there. Essentially, some are accusing Jeb of murder. This is horrific.
There is not much you can do when there are ignorant
bastards out there...they belong to the Michael Moore
mentality group. We need every vote we can get ..in florida and Ohio...I am working Ohio since I was born
there but....think of who you can contact....as Rush
Limbaugh says..diehard Bush bashers are beyond any
hope..forget them...concentrate on the positive ones..Jake
I don't remember where but there was a storm, I think last year where LE was going around and having people that wouldn't leave doc their next of kin and that they had been warned.
Good God! What on earth are you doing with friends like these? They are sick, really truely sick.
Najaf, Florida?
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