Oh brother....you Katrina people are such spoiled brats. You get all the attention and then complain when another state had an incident. Louisiana is one of the worst states in the nation and you prove it everyday. Most can’t read down there because your education sucks. You cry all day long about Katrina three years later. Grow up. Plus you complaining about people posting to Free Republic and were part of the hurricane is just plain ignorant because cell phones allow for posting quick things on the internet....but since Louisiana is a very poor stupid state, I forgive your ignorance.
Your posts have just got to be the most ignorant I’ve seen. When I start reading them, I look at the poster name and say ‘here we go again.’
Might I suggest an editor review your posts? Remember that line, ‘better to keep quiet than open your mouth and let everyone know you’re an idiot?’
BTW - Bless your heart!
He’s only able to use his cell phone because he still has cell phone towers in his vicinity.
Try doing that when they’re either all blown down or out of power because their generators ran down. Most places south of highway 98 in MS were w/o cell phone access for a MONTH or more. There WAS no way to reach my parents via phone, ANY kind of phone, during the aftermath of Katrina. For a MONTH. No land lines, no cell phones and no way to get there because gas was rationed for law enforcement and power companies.
You have no clue how interconnected all your modern conveniences are until you lose one, and then another, and then another. Good luck boiling water with no electricity. Oh, you had a gas stove? Hope that works when the pipeline pumping stations have no electricty. No gas, no stove, no boiling water. Hope you thought to get that extra container of propane for your grill!
While dude is complaining about temporare loss of SOME modernity, there are people near him who’ve lost *everything*. Instead of complaining that he’s w/o a few things he’s accustomed to, temporarily, he *might*, *might* offer up a word of thanks that he still HAS his children, house, all the things in it. But no, he’s complaining. Meanwhile, some people have lost *everything* in this storm. We’ll feel sorry for them, instead. They’re decidedly *not* able to post on the internet and complain about it. And, complain they’re not getting appropriate sympathy. I’m just going to BET here, that those people currently w/o ANYTHING wouldn’t feel very sorry for him, either.
We don’t *like* complainers down here. Not. At. All.
And I lived up north, for nearly 10 years. The first time there is serious, serious social unrest or a *real* civil disaster you’ll be boiling each other in pots. NO preparedness up there. At all. Nature will get you for that one day. We *might* feel sorry for *some* of you. Only some, mind you.