Posted on 09/13/2008 5:47:07 PM PDT by dynachrome
The most fortunate factor is that the nation is going to see how Texans can handle misfortune. Texans will not sit on their porches and wait for Uncle FEMA to save them. Their families and neighbors will lend a helping hand where it is needed. Texans will not sit and whine that everything is taking so long. They will make things happen and if things get in their way, they will go around those obstacles. Texans will get to work and try to make their ruined cities function as quickly as possible. They will not look for excuses for their failure to perform.
I am banking on my fellow Texans to make their parents and grandparents proud by carrying on the excellent virtues of independence that we learned from them. I will not be disappointed.
The sky is falling...UP?
The media has forced the state and local govt to over react to these storms. They are afraid of being the next “katrina” so they spend millions and then make excuses when the storm isn’t as bad as they thought.
So, Obama stayed away from SNL for nothing?
There has been ZERO news coverage about damage to offshore oil rigs or coastal refineries in the wake of Hurricane Ike.
The drive-by media can’t find a story. Bottom line.
Gas prices will be coming back down shortly.
The good news is that permanent refugees from Katrina living in SE Texas saw and will see how disaster planning and recovery are supposed to be done.
Hope so but there’s other problems besides damage from hurricanes Ike and Gustav. Low inventory,low capacity vs. demand, etc.
Go here and decide for youself:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2081873/posts
Although this article seems to address mostly commercial properties and oil refinery interests, hopefully the damage to neighborhoods won’t be such as to approach the $11 billion mark paid by insurers on the claims by Louisiana homeowners after Katrina.
Interesting article; hurricanes are only part of the problem of fuel shortages.
But politically, it appears that Ike failed to deliver.
I think McCain/Palin will win on a `Drill Here Drill Now’ platform.
Too late. Heard on radio news as I drove out of harms way (at freeway speed) to Austin, how some Galveston refugees, who were bussed out in plenty of time (at taxpayers expense) where already complaining that their shelter accommodations were substandard (no comfy cot yet) and they hadn't got fed yet - and that was before many average self-sufficent Gulf Coast Texans could get themselves to their self-paid hotels or friends or family's homes.
The government welfare rats will always be with us as long as we tolerate their whining. And their whining will always grow, the more that we indulge them.
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