Posted on 08/31/2005 7:09:41 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel
And what does that mean?
I'm guessing a good percentage of us FReepers know damn right well what we would do and it would not involve risking our family's life by riding out a MAJOR hurricane, MOST of us would have PLANNED AHEAD and would not be sitting on rooftops or looting our local Wal-Mart. some people just naturally do the wrong thing
Are you kidding me??? Seriously? Are you kidding?? Anyone with half a brain knows right from wrong and would NATURALLY do the RIGHT thing.
The problem being that some innocent folks who have saved their own household items will be swept up with the looters. If I had to find the bills of sale for our TV's, computers and small appliances to prove ownwership I'd be in trouble. Might have to limit it to stuff in original cartons...
A friend in Budapest told me over there the news was all about the looters. "Decadent America".
I left, my family and friends left before the storm hit. If you want to go loot our stuff, go for it, it will all be under water in a few hours.
The way they figure, the water is rising so in a day or so the merchandise will go to waste. No excuse though. Looters still should be shot.
A few years back when the levy broke in Fargo, that's just what some relatives of mine did. They just let the government buldoze the place and moved to higher land. Once a house gets soaked like that, it's ruined and there is NOTHING you can do to salvage it. There really is nothing to go back to a salvage.
True. Either way they can probably write it off. That's what insurance is for. Hope the "guests" enjoy their new merchandise.
" Also, remember the Red Cross just hid 4 terrorists in Iraq from US forces."
That was the ICRC.
The US Red Cross has nothing to do with them.
Especially the dead ones!
Especially the dead ones!
Thanks.
2 months ago a tornado ripped thru 3 miles south of town. Threw the sherrifs truck 200 yards out in the pasture with him still in it. Flattened 2 houses and tore the roofs off of sveral more. I was up for 3 days helping get people to back to some sort of normalcy. Countless trips to town for food that was freely donated by the Churches and the local grocery store (that my wife owns) and I hope I never have to nail another shingle as long as I live. FEMA didnt join in because we didnt make a big enough blip on their radar. The damage from tornados pails in comparison to anything related to coastal weather, and I will take the charity of my good willed neighbors before I cash a gubmint handout.
No looting going on here. No cops being shot. No lake of raw sewage pouring into what was once my home town. Every one heeded the warnings and took cover and the only injury was a day later when a volonteer fell of the roof he was helping fix and broke his wrist.
The folks in Florida last year and befor and the outer banks of the Carolinas have been rebuiling for years and N.O. has been wondering for decades what they were gonna do when the pumps failed and ponchetrain drained into downtown. Well now they get to find out.
It won't be long now.....80 percent of the city is under water, wooden structures cannot withstand sitting in water for long periods of time, just a matter of time before the wood rots and these structures start collapsing all over the place, I say leave it be, let nature take care of it, do the clean up afterwards and DO NOT rebuild, we've seen what a hurricane can do to a place below sea level, just bury it and let it rest in peace.
placemark
I left Saturday and was sure I was doing the right thing.
On Sunday I was damn sure I did the right thing.
On Monday I was concerned about our property.
On Tuesday I was very concerned about the property.
Today, I am grateful to God that my family and I got out and are alive. I could really don't care about the house of anyone's TV or DVD player.
We are alive and not stuck in that hell hole.
My thoughts exactly when I began to read these stories.
Seems that many are helping themselves to whatever they "need".
Why would someone/anyone want to donate? They don't need my money or provisions, that's for sure.
Unfortunately, this is hurting all of the remaining residents of NO, including the honest ones (i.e. the sick, infirmed, elderly) who had no choice but to stay and ride out the storm.
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