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.
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Nevertheless, there was ample warning and sufficient time to get the hell out of the storm's path.
If two or more of them are together they will snicker and rehearse the mantra until the cows come home. Is it worth your time and trouble to even acknowledge they might be sentient beings?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2217719&mesg_id=2217719&page=
Sorry but I cannot remember HTML tags. I wish FR would provide a convenient list somewhere on the page we write our replies on.
Here ya go. I hotlinked it for ya. They are insane over there.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2217719&mesg_id=2217719&page=
Thank you. Where do you find tags to use as you are typing a reply?
Thank you. Where do you find tags to use as you are typing a reply?
The trick is to not use ANY HTML tags at all when you're typing your reply. If you leave out all the < and > and P and all that, and just type it just like you would in MS Word, the link will come up active.
No paragraphs, nothing.
Just copy and paste the link and it works.
Just paste it from your browser. Keep life simple.
Why not blame the people who didn't pay attention?
If you live on the west coast of Florida and there is a CAT 2 hurricane heading from Havana to ANY point on the west coast of Florida, why aren't they ready?
Can they not figure out that they are on the front right quadrant of the storm?
It's time to stop this blaming.
I always thought he looked familar, but couldn't place him or imagine why. Now it makes sense! (Smacking forehead) Used to watch WSVN long ago while in Ft. Lauderdale, before getting satellite.
Bump to that
That's exactly what I did - I "copied" the link from my IE address line and "pasted" it in my reply. And it came out all black; not nice and red and underlined like everyone else's.
Boo hoo.
You put in the < P > (without the spaces).
Leave ALL formatting If you take out the < P > it wil be just like ours.
Type it just like you would a letter in email; then when you cut and paste the URL, it shows up RED; you should be able to see it in the PREVIEW box.
There always seems to be an HTML class in almost every thread on FR...LOL.
"...never hated him, I never wished for him to die, etc."
I was sort of wishing he'd get a severe case of genital warts...and maybe pass them along to the witch.
Good luck.
Reuters:
Moveon.org has provided proof that Jeb and George Bush used ultra secret technology to manufacture this hurricane then turned it loose on an unsuspecting Florida populace. All in the name of winning an election.
John Kerry, when told of the hurricane, said "If I were there I would have used my experience from Viet Nam to get those people out of there, and called on the U.N. to help stop the rampant destruction of the hurricane through the use of Security Council Resolutions.
lolol
Yes, your friends are being dumb, but don't start thinking Democrats have an exclusive on dumb, and don't start thinking your friends are representative of all Democrats. They're just upset and lashing out - they will probably sober up and figure out that Jeb wasn't really trying to kill them.
The reporter's question that you report is actually a softball question. Even if the reporter had asked something completely unrelated, Jeb's reply would have been, "I'm really going to make sure people get help." That reporter just gave him a chance to say what he wanted to say anyway.
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