[DustyMoment]

He avoided the fee by having his bank enter the payment, but he said he thinks companies should show a little compassion at a time like this.

In my experience, in situations like this, most reputable lenders are very understanding and will bend over backwards to work with their customers.

The terrorists are probably looking at this and thinking about what an EMP burst would do.

Yep, we have become a country of spoiled, whining brats. All you have to do is look at the Katrina survivors, the Ike survivors, etc. They got to keep their lives, but the government didn't give each of them $25,000 so they could learn how to wipe their own bu . . . . . . . er, CHINS!!!!

Our frontiersmen ancestors would NEVER recognize the America of today!!

[buccaneer81]

Here, they’re reimbursing food stamp users for the food they lost during the outage. ARGHHH...!

[murron]

Right after Hurricane Katrina, my bank bent over backwards to not charge any bank fees, especiallly for overdrafts that happened after the storm, realizing that people could not get to a bank to make deposits, and that there were many who had automatic drafts coming out of their accounts, and they also didn’t charge for ATM fees.