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To: Milligan

Oh, hey...I'm completely with you. I grew up in Florida.

When that hurricane rounded Miami, I would have been out of anywhere in the Gulf. From the Coast of Texas to the Panhandle of Florida.

Same thing with Katrina. The minute they say Cat 3 or above, I'd be gone. With my husband, daughter, 2 dogs, bird, and every single important thing that I could pack in my car.

No way would I depend on anyone to "tell me" when it was time to go. Much less depend on someone to take care of me afterwards.

I'm not saying everyone can do that--I know there are people who need help. But anyone with common sense can look at that radar screen and see that monster coming for DAYS in advace.


132 posted on 09/23/2005 8:02:34 AM PDT by serpentineshel
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To: serpentineshel

I hope I don't get religious with you but there are things we can not control and somethings we can control. Nature is a powerful force and should never be second quessed. No matter how the local, state and federal government plans for emergencies...human nature will dictate its outcome. The left are saying we can not control the out come of a natural disasters how can we be protected by a terrorist attack? Homeland Security attached to Fema is a failure. They're not helping the matter by being Americans first and have empathy for the victims of this hurricane. They're most interested in nit picking Bush. I'm sure there's been bad hurricanes before. We use to say it was act of God but not anymore. It dawn on to me how the left are morally bankrupt. They take a delight seeing people suffer to get back at people they don't like. They are blinded by their hatred. They can't look at the world around them. It's all about politics to disprove Bush. I'm sure typhoons were pretty bad out in the Pacific but they don't get reported. I live Illinois and for couple of years we had a rash of tornados. This year its real quite! People also forget the 95' Chicago Heat Wave which killed 700 people. Mostly poor elderly black people who didn't have any air conditioners. They sealed themselves inside their apartments. They didn't dare open a window or the hoodlums would enter.
Every winter we hear about house fires in the South Side of Chicago because the poor people heat their homes with electric heaters or oven stoves. The Federal and State has emergency supplies of natural gas to take care of them but it seems it never gets to them. I always hear about devastating fires that kill score of little children on the news. It's been happening for years with no solutions. I expect next year with the oil and nature gas shortages they will be politically expendable.


172 posted on 09/23/2005 8:46:02 AM PDT by Milligan (I don't know much about history)
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