Why am I worried about Dean simple. The effects it will have on the stock market, oil rigs, and refineries. Also insurance companies just took a big hit on wallstreet ( the way they pay claims is investing your premiums on wall street ) so they may not be able to pay out.
5go braces for Hurricane Dean
by 5go 28 Replies latest social current
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5go
Yah , it's kinda like telling katrina people they had plenty of time to get out of new orleans .......... People will do whatever they want and seldom is it the smart choice .IMO
I believe the ones that stayed were kind of waiting for some thing like what china and cuba do for their poor people that do not possess a means of travel or can afford it. Get them a form of tranportation to get out in. Which did arrive after katrina hit.
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BrentR
Alot of those people that were supposedly waiting for the gov to come get them could have fiqured out how to leave or at least find a higher safer spot. There was more then enough warning given.
If we as a collective nation have not fiqured out yet that all levels of gov are never there when we need them by now then you are doomed and screwed. History always repeats it's self and we need to keep our heads out of our behinds and learn from it.
How many people do we know only wear seatbelts because the gov made it a law? Even after it is law how many do we see that still don't wear them or make thier kids wear them? So I am not the least bit surprised that when they are advised to "get out of Dodge" because a hurricane is comming and your house is 10 feet below sea level that they do nothing and then cry a river about what happened.
If you are going to be stupid you'd better be tough!
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5go
How many people do we know only wear seatbelts because the gov made it a law? Even after it is law how many do we see that still don't wear them or make thier kids wear them? So I am not the least bit surprised that when they are advised to "get out of Dodge" because a hurricane is comming and your house is 10 feet below sea level that they do nothing and then cry a river about what happened.
I think some did want to get of of dodge and couldn't hence the superdome scandal. They got to higher ground and the government left there to die after the storm passed.
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greendawn
It might be interesting to experience a hurricane from a safe corner, in Britain they are very rare and not as powerful and earthquakes never happen here. We don't have any natural forces that are big and exciting fun. Except the occasional flood.
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5go
It might be interesting to experience a hurricane from a safe corner, in Britain they are very rare and not as powerful and earthquakes never happen here. We don't have any natural forces that are big and exciting fun. Except the occasional flood.
It's just a big thunderstorm to me. I almost want to go to galveston if it were to hit it and ride it out.
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brinjen
Well, take some comfort 5go that it will be our turn soon. Wet season is just around the corner here, although Mar-Apr is traditionally the most likely time, monsoon activity tracking north over what is then very, very warm oceans.
We didn't get a scare this year, did the previous two years with Ingrid in 2005 & Monica in 2006. Monica was a category 5 with peak gusts of 360km/h and 905hPa. She was scary, missed Darwin when she went inland earlier than expected. By the time she reached us, she had been downgraded to a tropical low.
Of course, there's the famous Cyclone Tracy back on Christmas day in 1974 that wiped out the city, but that's another thread.
All I can say is stay safe man.
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purplesofa
Yah , it's kinda like telling katrina people they had plenty of time to get out of new orleans .......... People will do whatever they want and seldom is it the smart choice .IMO
Some people don't have choices. I think its hard for people to understand, those that have not had to do it and esp over long lifetimes of it. I think its hard to understand that many people exist on a day to day basis. They live a crisis of some sort every day.
If you don't have enough money for food and medicine, have no savings, have no money, and here comes a storm, and the government says to board up your house, get out of town and you have no way, it may not be what they want to do, they simply have no choice.
then the problem escalates.
For example, everyone that drives w/o ins does it because they just choose not to. They get a ticket and then fail to appear to court, afterall now they cannot drive. Maybe they don't have a phone either, got sick the day they went to court and was not able to walk to a phone to call(although that is not admissable here, to call in for an extension)
Now they still have the ins to pay, the ticket for not having ins, the new fee for failure to appear in court plus the added expense of a warrent that has an additional fee.
Some people are just so poor they have to make decisions every day on survival. i imagine those that stayed in New Orleans know that more than the average American. Staying there to survive was there only option, whether it was a smart choice or not, for many it was their only choice.
I have lived a life with plenty and without. I know what its like to know what you are supposed to do and simply cannot. It is very frustrating. Being judged on top of it makes the burden harder. I think it helps perpetuate criminals just my personal opinion.
purps
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5go
I have lived a life with plenty and without. I know what its like to know what you are supposed to do and simply cannot. It is very frustrating. Being judged on top of it makes the burden harder. I think it helps perpetuate criminals just my personal opinion.
purps
Ticket analogy was great pay the ticket and starve or get food been there. It's a choise but I would of love another one like pay the ticket and have food as well but, you need money to do that. Though it was my choise to be poor right.