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Hurricane Harvey
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 Quote:I do not understand, for the life of me, how some people chose to stay in their homes with how this hurricane was being covered. Some had no choice. I recall one over-indulged Louisiana bitch telling a newsman during Katrina "why didn't they go to their 'summer homes?'  (August 29, 2017 at 2:27 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:I do not understand, for the life of me, how some people chose to stay in their homes with how this hurricane was being covered. I know some had no choice. You left out the entire rest of my post where I expanded on that. Disclaimer: I am only responsible for what I say, not what you choose to understand.
Large numbers of folks, even ones with good jobs, have no savings for any kind of an emergency. Living paycheck to paycheck there isn't much resources to throw at a problem that arises.
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(August 29, 2017 at 2:39 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Large numbers of folks, even ones with good jobs, have no savings for any kind of an emergency. Living paycheck to paycheck there isn't much resources to throw at a problem that arises. I can relate. We live paycheck to paycheck and sometimes there is more month left at the end of our money. Disclaimer: I am only responsible for what I say, not what you choose to understand.
 (August 29, 2017 at 2:17 pm)Nymphadora Wrote:(August 27, 2017 at 9:08 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: News is reporting two deaths near Corpus and hundreds of high-water rescues in Houston. Addressing only the people who stayed through choice, not through lack of ability to leave point: They stay for the same reason they piss and moan about the news "fear mongering" about the upcoming snow storm or schools proactively closing and then the storm arrives and there's three arrant flakes of snow. "What was all the talk about? PSH! The fake news is at it again!" And then when a snow storm arrives and way worse than predicted they piss and moan about how they should have known this was coming and should have shut down schools ahead of time and should have had all the snow plow trucks ready or should have salted the roads.... It's people being completely unaware of the hindsight bias.
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In 2011, we had enough warning time for the flood, and the area affected, while very long, was quite narrow. Folks had time to load up all their stuff and 'head for the hills'. My farm is high enough we had folks farther out on the Missouri bottoms store farm equipment here. A friend of ours was going to bring his camper here if water threatened his location, and I had a full camper hook up ready (electricity, sewer and water) but fortunately he was fine where he was.
In Houston, where's the nearby high ground? Where's the nearby areas not under water or threatening to flood? Where's the nearby areas able to absorb large numbers of folks displaced by the water? And they didn't have the lead time we did either. The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
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(August 29, 2017 at 2:32 pm)Nymphadora Wrote:(August 29, 2017 at 2:27 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Some had no choice. But it doesn't matter. The vast number lack the resources to do anything else but sit there and take it. That's the bottom line. If you had someplace to put them, how do you evacuate 5 million people in 48 hours? This thing strengthened heavily as it approached the coast. |
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