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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on October 30, 2012, 09:46:07 PM
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Stinky The Clown (47,896 posts)
"I wish we had listened. I wish we had left."
I just heard that said by an interviewee who survived Sandy in New York's Breezy Point neighborhood, which was completely devastated by storm, surge, and fire. Over 100 homes gone; burned to cinders is a hurricane's deluge. The man who said that lived through the horror with his wife and child as they watched a nearby house get lifted off its foundation and float toward them. It slammed into their house, opening up some of it to the storm. To survive, they left their house and headed into the storm and the night and the howling gale and made their way to the neighborhood church where they waited it out, scared to their very cores.
I am sure many of us can relate to that. As self reliant people, we tend to want to stay and protect ourselves and our own. Against anything.
And sometimes that is a terrible decision.
But how does one *make* that decision? To flee or to stay? To trust in others to keep you and yours safe.
Hindsight is always 20/20. The "right" decision is always clear when it no longer needs to be made. I don't know what I would have actually decided . . . . . but my tendency, my first instinct, would be to stay. What I can never do is condemn the decisions of others. I'm sure some can find the decisions foolhardy. All I can find is compassion.
Many of us can relate to Harry Truman, Spirit Lake Lodge proprietor, and Mt. St. Helens' most famous victim. His decision to stay was wrong only in hindsight. Or not. That run down lodge was his very life.
To flee or not? I don't know, but I hope, now that decisions were made we can all come together to help.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021674219
Since you goons blamed Bush for those who didn't listen during Katrina, then this is 0bama's fault if those people die.
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They make it difficult to sympathize with them when safety is less than a few hours' drive away.
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Stinky The Clown (47,896 posts)
"I wish we had listened. I wish we had left."
I am sure many of us can relate to that. As self reliant people, we tend to want to stay and protect ourselves and our own. Against anything.
He's kiddin', right? DUmmies are the first to wait for the gubmint to bail them out.
Hell, this POS lets his wife dictate to him what bathroom he can use!
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They make it difficult to sympathize with them when safety is less than a few hours' drive away.
Exactly.
I live in earthquake country, we don't get two week warnings.
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They aren't the first yankees that refused when they were told to leave.
I know someone who was manning the 911 emergency system when Hurricane Ivan hit in Pensacola. Well, in advance of the hurricane sheriff's deputies and police went door to door in certain pre-identified neighborhoods and told everyone to leave. If someone refused, they had them fill out forms identifying themselves and how to contact their next nearest kin, so the body could be delivered after the storm. They were told repeatedly, always by yankees, that they had survived blizzards and they weren't going to let a hurricane chase them out.
This one 911 operator took five calls during the height of the storm from people begging for emergency to come save them from their house as it blew apart under the pressure of the wind and waves. Each caller was told the same thing, Someone will be along as soon as the counties emergency management team considered it safe to dispatch emergency personnel. Most of the callers died in the storm, along with families. They were all yankees that decided they knew better than people who had lived in Florida all of their lives.
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He's kiddin', right? DUmmies are the first to wait for the gubmint to bail them out.
Hell, this POS lets his wife dictate to him what bathroom he can use!
GMTA, Allo. H5.
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Stinky The Clown
What I can never do is condemn the decisions of others. I'm sure some can find the decisions foolhardy. All I can find is compassion.
Many of us can relate to Harry Truman, Spirit Lake Lodge proprietor, and Mt. St. Helens' most famous victim. His decision to stay was wrong only in hindsight. Or not. That run down lodge was his very life.
Well I can do it, sissy boy.
I don't care if that lodge was his life, it's just something built by humans. There is nothing materially I own that is worth my life or the life of my family. Getting yourself killed over some object that can be replaced is just stupid.
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Stinky The Clown (47,896 posts)
But how does one *make* that decision? To flee or to stay? To trust in others to keep you and yours safe.
What I can never do is condemn the decisions of others. I'm sure some can find the decisions foolhardy. All I can find is compassion.
Oh, Mikey, you stupid pezzo di merda, I am going to share with you the sentiment of my 3rd son after he watched his oldest brother attempt to walk down our stairs on his hands: "You're stupid".
Make of that what you will.
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Well I can do it, sissy boy.
I don't care if that lodge was his life, it's just something built by humans. There is nothing materially I own that is worth my life or the life of my family. Getting yourself killed over some object that can be replaced is just stupid.
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This. :cheersmate:
They make it difficult to sympathize with them when safety is less than a few hours' drive away.
I some areas, much less. I have family in Highlands/Sandy Hook. The headlands are about 1/2 a mile away.
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I hope this thread title is the DUmmy whine shortly after the election.