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 hear ya. My BIL has a summer home not far from the damage. I'm still waiting for his report.
Anybody that stupid couldn't have had much to lose. Sorry, but I can no longer tolerate these bastards who insist on finding someone to blame for everything and anything.
God forbid if Tropical Storm Earl hits Florida..it will be a conspiracy...what are the odd's of 3 storms hitting Florida in 10 days time?! I can just see the lunacy now.
i dont think abiding an enemy ("a friend like that") makes one a better person. should i?
I also her a woman on MSNBC say that it was Bush's fault because they kept saying it was going to hit Tampa and they were not told that it would hit her area.
Is it tin foil hat time?
Okay, they're on the Mock List now too. Good, we have four targets! Who else? Can we mock sorority girls? I personally will continue to make fun of geezers who "mistake" the gas for the brake.
Yeah, I agree with you. I'm sure they're just salivating over the thought of using even more deaths to their advantage. Democrats - the party of death.
Hmmmmm...wouldn't this create jobs instead? People around the country will flock Florida in the coming weeks. Don't you think this would be a plus, I'm talking in the sense of job opportunities.
How'd you get to be friends with these people? I've tried being friends with liberals in the past. Doesn't work. We're just so incredibly different in the core, in the soul.
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Exactly!
We live in a nation that has been near completely idiotized...I blame the RATs and their propaganda networks ABCBSCNNNBCPBS along with government indoctrination and daycare camps (public schools).
OTOH if Kerry had stayed in Nam a year like everyone who wasn't special he'd have single-handedly destroyed Charley back then, judging from the media's accounts of his service.
No kidding. Bush-haters are gripped in a type of insanity.
It is NOT the same as "Clinton-hating" where to this day we can provide documentation of his skullduggery and depravity.
Thanks for sharing your evidence of this outrageous attitude that is out there. A departure of reality, a leave of the senses, a desire to wallow in hate. It is a bad thing.
I still love you, even after that crack about blondes. Elitists, Unite!
Get a load of this.
What's that supposed to mean?
Hey they blame Bush for 911, terrorism and the war in Iraq. I mean you can`t get any more demented than that can you? 8 years of Clinton appeasement, the UN and the "anti war" protesters who emboldened Saddam against the UN are never even mentioned. I think maybe it`s high time we start laying blame where blame lies; straight on the lap of the liberal cabal and start to confront these sick bastards. After all, they`re trying to do it all over again, make things even worse by fanatically supporting a sociopath to end all sociopaths; a putz named John Kerry who in my opinion is going to make Clinton look like absolute amateur hour when it comes to corruption and ineptness. They don`t want Kerry just because they hate Bush...They want Kerry because they hate the United States. I mean if you wanted to damage this country in the worst way possible, what would you do? Pick the worst possible person to run it.
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