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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
True believers of any political movement, particularly the fringes of any movement, are as bad as the Hale Bop comet worshippers. Nuts. I don't even talk to them when they start with that "you're with us or you're against us" crap. If I weren't keenly aware of the judgment they would have entered against me in civil court for doing so, I'd slap silly every one of them I meet. Just a slap in the lips; they don't deserve the open fist.
Dude, the rich were out of there days before the storm hit. You're seeing Social Darwinism working its course. Its sad, its wrong, but there's nothhing anyone or any govt can do to stop these things. When the shit comes down like this, those without resources are always the victims, and there's never a cost feasible way to get them out in advance. And even if there were, a lot of them wouldn't have taken the ride. All they had were their homes. How do you run from that? How do you admit to yourself that everything you've got will be gone, and you life's posessions will be nothing more than what you carry on to an emergency evacuation vehicle?
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You always hear about people sticking it out, and this one wasn't expected to be bad until shortly before it hit. B&B said it didn't do crap in Fla., and I remember hearing that it wasn't much at all when it first turned.
Now, a day or two notice, then the levee breaks, a city is flooded, and 100000 people need to be moved, housed and fed. That's some serious shit right there.
earlier this year, friend of mine goes to NO, and the cab driver in from the airport is telling her "this city will all be gone one day, once a big hurricaine hits."
