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They just did a story about looting on the CBS News. Police officers were taking supplies from a flooded Walgreens to people in another part of the city where it was even worse, then told the people standing outside of the Walgreens "I cant say you're welcome to it, but you've gotta do what you've gotta do to survive."
Some people could not leave. It is easy for all of us to say "why didn't they leave"
Tens of thousands of people did not have cars. The roads were completely packed...bumper to bumper.
By the time people realized the hurricane was going to hit them it was too late.
Over one million people in that city alone.
Not everyone has the means to evacuate.
It is just a terrible situation all the way around. The easy thing would be for some people to sit back and be glib about it and say "they should have left...I don't feel sorry for them"
These are most likely the people who really don't care anyway about their fellow Americans...so it is pointless to argue with them.
Hmmm. Food I can see. Milk, bread, fruit will go bad. They could need neosporin and such if the water they are wading through is half as bad as described. Don't even begrudge them a water-soaked People or two.
But when they start hitting the condoms and Sudafed, I'm less charitable.
They just did a story about looting on the CBS News. Police officers were taking supplies from a flooded Walgreens to people in another part of the city where it was even worse, then told the people standing outside of the Walgreens "I cant say you're welcome to it, but you've gotta do what you've gotta do to survive."
I would have said : "I won't shoot you in the kneecap if you help carry this stuff to the shelter and the old folk's home".