In my town, we call it Homeless Inc. There are dozens of organizations and government bureaus all dealing with bums and winos. We just did a huge survey of the bums and winos to find out how we can help them more. Homeless Inc. thinks there are 3000 bums and winos and I bet there are 6000 people in government and non-profits helping them. They do a great job too. The warming centers we had had to be extended and they made the mistake of giving the additional amount of money, the number of nights, and the number of bums and winos they would warm overnight. It worked out to $55/night-bum. We could have housed them in a motel for that price.
I wonder where all the displaced people in the mid west are going to go now that the tornado's and floods have wiped them out.???? What of the sacrificial towns that are doomed to be destroyed so as to save the larger city's???
Not just the bums but the hospitals, nursing homes, jails, the big businesses, chain grocery stores, the elderly that can or could manage to still live at home, pay taxes and some that have farmed the same land for 4-5 generations. Every one is homeless, out of jobs, schools gone, or dead before their time.
We are watching living history worse perhaps then the Dust Bowl that only the 80+ year old remember.
When the waters recede this will be just the beginning of mega problems for millions of people. The farm lands that have been contaminated with salt and Lord knows how many chemicals, will the farmers be able to plant the crops from the past or have to get into a brouhaha with Chemical company's about planting Hemp to improve the soil, absorb the chemicals.
We go round and round on the homeless all society's have but now we are faced with millions of homeless due to Mother Nature.
Example my area we have had some floods that caused much damage to the town next door, not just to the buildings but to the results of human inhibition, Check under your sinks or out buildings and try to imagine what would happen if everything from Drano, paint, stored gas to power lawn maintenance equipment washed into the water table.
After a few floods the bays near the town began to experience problems, everyone scrambling to understand sudden die offs of protected species.
Now if you have a septic tank, fancy it popping out of the ground as you pour all chemicals in the home on top of the exposed tank. You live in a sub division with 300 other homes that all residences are doing the same thing. ---What to do with the drowned rotting bodies of the wild life and trapped pets, the domesticated cattle, horses , goats, pigs and chickens.
Local cemetery where the water table pops up caskets and floats them down stream.
Disease now comes into the mix, all the while people are looking at the sky waiting for a mega tornado to come in and distroy anything left standing.
There is a reason that Noah feared water over fire, Fire can be ultimately stopped, water has a power that man is helpless to control.
So what do we do when the displaced head East, not West and come by the millions to find a new beginning????
As we direct out attention to some other country, all our money and care is going into improving their lives, while the suffering of millions of American Citizens is placed on the back burner.
On a lighter side, human nature is a hoot. Norfork Va. early 1980's,
In the middle or close to down town a Large Baptist cemetery sits. At the busiest time of the day a gas pipe running along the front of the cemetery malfunctioned.
The explosion caused 3 dozen or so caskets to fly sky high.
Hundreds of people were storming into any church with unlocked doors, For an hour or 2 everything shut down, city buses due to the number of people kneeling in the streets as the believed that now was the time of the Rapture. Word spread far and wide and hundreds if not thousands of people rushed into town to become part of the Rapture.
To make matters worse the majority of the police and fire department were Born Again Christians and torn between their faith and their duty.
This on one hand was very sad for the believers and a roll on the floor laughing for some. What does this come to mind, darned if I know unless is a fact that some can see the devastation as an act of God or just an accident.
Point being that Mother Nature or accidents will do more damage to humans then any Terrorist can ever do.
