"Think about it: Water's at your knees, kids are hungry and thirsty. You'd call 911 if you had a phone and if someone would answer. How could I say that if this were my situation, I wouldn't be one of those people heading out of the Wal-Mart with things that could help my family survive?"
Fortune favors the prepared. Or another cliche, you drill your well BEFORE you're thirsty.
Plus, looting started in some places BEFORE the hurricane came through.
"I have to have this flat panel TV to survive! Otherwise, how will I watch the hurricane coverage during the hurricane?!?!?"
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My wife used to make fun of me because I would store water.
I explained to her that we have plenty of canned or preserved foods, prolly for 2 weeks, just sitting around anyway. But if there's no water in a crisis, there's no water and none coming. So I store some.
She hasn't brought it up lately.
Exactly. I can't believe these people a) didn't have a decent amount of food around that they took w/them as they had to escape (hell, some people are way up high in apt's that you know didn't get the flood waters) b) really need to gather tons of food at once as many are.
It's LOOTING - stealing, down to the nitty-gritty. Sorry, taking everything you can even if it's legit foodstuff is greedy stealing, regardless of your hardships.
Where's the sympathy for the people whose livelihoods are being further ruined by this behavior? It's insult to injury.