'Caveman' Conditions in Texas Follow Rita

Associated Press ^ | 9/27/05 | ABE LEVY

[dawn53]

Excuse me if I'm wrong, but I just didn't hear all this whining coming from Floridians last year. Some went without electricity for months...some in Charlotte county still have their houses half repaired, and some are still living in FEMA trailers.

Why all the whining this season as opposed to last?

[pa mom]

We have been living like cavemen, sleeping in cars

I remember learning about Neanderthals in Buicks in high school.

[Mike Darancette]

living like cavemen

Real Cavemen don't whine.

[psjones]

remember learning about Neanderthals in Buicks in high school.


3 posted on 09/27/2005 4:51:05 PM PDT by pa mom
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LOL.

[mikrofon]

GEICO should be one of the first insurers there if that's the case...

[Armigerous]

.....and "Cadillac Cro-Magnons"

[Sybeck1]

This is so stereotypical!!

[steveo]

"We have been living like cavemen"

When he got tired of dancing alone, he'd look in the mirror: "Gotta find a woman gotta find a woman gotta find a woman gotta find a woman".

[ThreePuttinDude]

Associated Press ^ | 9/27/05 | ABE LEVY

Arent these the same idiots that were claiming 10,000
deaths, & many rapes in the Super Dome, etc.??

[libill]

Was Cindy Sheehan down there? I didn't detect any whining, just a few people reporting what the real situation is without the sensationalism found on broadcast TV.

[Rhiannon]

My son lived for 10 days in 100 plus degree heat without electricity at the BSA Jamboree and they survived fine. Used porta potties. I am sure that people can use something like a chamber pot for solid waste. People have lived for thousands of years without eletricity. What is with these people?They should get their own generators and spray for mosquitos and used gas stoves to cook on.
Why do they need others to get these items for them. If they can transport by boat or road, they can these items.
Many people do not use AC and live fine.

[after dark]

Good for him.

I hope those people get their air conditioning.

Oh, and getting eaten by mosquitoes is not a small thing.

Look up St. Louis Encephalitis.

[after dark]

Good for him.

I hope those people get their air conditioning.

Oh, and getting eaten by mosquitoes is not a small thing.

Look up St. Louis Encephalitis.

[Rightly Biased]

I work for a large Telecommunications Co and we planned ahead and bought 75 generators to get our plant up and running as soon as possible in the Golden Triangle area.

We had the generators trucked in from California paid the driver to wait at our Division office until Saturday and then had him truck the generators to the Golden Triangle.

He gets to Beaumont and FEMA immediately confiscated our Generators.

The moral of the story don't plan ahead in a storm cause FEMA will take your Stuff.(seems to me FEMA could have bought some generators as well but ours were prepaid for I guess)

[Eagles6]

"Nearly four days after Hurricane Rita hit, many of the storm's sweltering victims along the Texas Gulf Coast were still waiting for electricity, gasoline, water and other relief Tuesday, prompting one top emergency official to complain that people are "living like cavemen."

We had a snow storm not that awful long ago where folks didn't have power for a month in the middle of winter. No whining no reporters either.

[BunnySlippers]

I remember realizing that on the morning of the Northridge Quake in L.A. that I could not hear any traffic, that there was not one light on in the city and that, for once in my life, I felt the sense of "nature" here in Los Angeles.

So, yup, I understand.

[ChefKeith]

Cave ping!

[linn37]

Cavemen are hot!

[NickatNite2003]

Actually..That's how i think of nights, inside,
during long power outages...."CaveLand"...
..Wish i could afford one of those big
Home Standby 25KW generators that are
wired right into the home circut panel,
and are powered by the house gas main, or
an LP tank....But those sucker cost at least
$10,000...and then you have to pay for
installation, and the automatic switchover
wiring.

Ahhh well...maybe i'll just buy myself another
Xantrex unit....Or scrape together for a
portable(hah) 5KW gasoline engine Generator...

Speaking of which...i wonder why these portable
generators all have such small feeder tanks..i
mean really, if you're getting a generator thats
in the 5KW range, you'd think they'd make them
with tanks that would hold enough fuel for
8 to 12 hours..or at least develop a way to add/access
a second feeder tank, so that the person filling
g the unit could get a full nights sleep.