by upside/down 42 Replies latest jw friends
I think its a bit sick watching on TV as reporters fly around in helecopters filming peoples distress sat on roofs (rooves?) without food or water waving frantically for help. Its voyeuristic and cruel.If they cant help, they shouldnt be there filming it for our entertainment.
The media sucks like swallowing clorox
maybe a small percent are fascinated with natural disasters and they want to witness it. when i lived in tornado alley i didnt pay any attention to those dopplar radar national weather warning cries to get into basements. i stood outside or drove around hoping to catch a twister forming above me. i thought it would be "exciting."
Actually there was a call in show on NPR yesterday and tons of people called in asking the media to do more fly overs. The Red Cross person on the show agreed each time it was brought up. Relatives are asking for the fly overs to see if their loved ones' homes are destroyed to get an inkling if they're even alive. I know the media is pretty evil sometimes but perhaps there are other motives in this situation.
U/D, you are right, people ignore big warnings when they could otherwise heed them and remain safe. This is not limited to natural disasters. How many people have unprotected sex w/o knowing the HIV/communicable disease status of their sex partner? How many people ride around w/o seat belts? How many people smoke cigarettes? Drive around unneccessarily in bad ice storms (you should see how full the mall gets around here during blizzards)? Drive drunk? Use drugs? etc....
Attitudes at work here:
Note: The above comments refer to the topic of this thread--the people who COULD avoid such things and DON'T. Obviously there are many people who could not evacuate the South.
rebel8- good points!...
Somehow I feel the looter/predator mentality is counting on being able to either steal with no resistance or to prey on the poor and weak that are left. They're not stupid.
**off topic**...Funny how on the news when a black cop with a shotgun barked orders at looters with their hands full of booty...INSTANTLY complied with the cops requests. Hmmm...
I think some people are just "quirky" and maybe hope to be famous...(ie. Mt. St. Helens etc)
Anyway thanks for the "on-topic" responses.
u/d
UD,
You have a good point. Those healthy people being evacuated were suppose to go to the Dome. If it filled, they had 5 other emergency locations. But they decided to stay in their homes. I am really pissed off seeing these young healthy men dragging their family through the water.Toddlers and babies!
What were they thinking? Take your children to the Dome!
Bryan
Bryan, sorry to subvert the thread a bit. Do you know what you have lost? Do you know what kind of help you might need?
Ive been thinking about you lots.
KK, My family is fine. I'm worried about Bubbamar. Now back to the discussion.
Danny Haszard is a union trade concrete form carpenter X 22 years.
I helped build the containment dome for the seabrook nuke plant in New Hampshire
Build down and build up with reinforced concrete.It's good stuff cheap,fire/water proof man made stone.
"If you want it to stay-do it in grey"
You have to know the NewOrleans area,,,,,very, very poor people.To evacuate, you need a ride out,,,,,,,,did they have a car? ; Did they have someone that would take them out? ; Did they have any money, for a motel room? Did they have relatives to take them in? Most of them the answer was NO!
I know what you are saying but I have to say....
If those poor folks with no car had packed up what they could and started walking they may be alive and dry instead of wet and dying or dead today. Furthermore, they would still be poor. And they still would not have able relatives to take them in.
For the record I am sure we will find a lot of middle class folks rode this storm out ...they always do. Many get killed or hurt- not real bright. I read of a New Orleans lawyer who holed up on the 16th floor of his office and then couldnt escape the floods until someone rescued his family.
Urban people do not know how to survive. They will huddle like sheep while the disaster approaches, then turn on each other in an effort to "survive". The strongest of the sheep will bully the others and become looters. Later they will blame the "government" for what happened and how minorities were left behind .
None of these folks just lit out walking...willing to get to high ground, live in the woods, build a fire or whatever other simple measures it takes to really survive a disaster.
Did the state of LA offer any busses out before the storm hit? Did the state offer any thing other than a stupid plan of using a domed stadium as a potential mass coffin for the inner -city poor?
If we want to be outraged we need to be outraged with the people of Louisianna...they have been warned about the effects of a Class 4 storm in the New Orleans area for years... And have done nothing about it.
I hope some you come to realise that in a disaster WE are Responible for OURSELVES. Stock up..get out..learn to shoot...whatever it takes. Staying in harms way , waiting for the "government" to take care is foolish strategy at best.
~Hill
Hillbilly...you better stop talking sense like that...you're gonna both our asses chewed.
u/d
