09-06-2005, 06:14 PM
Watching the news certainly reinforces that stereotype. I don't buy the whole racism angle here -- to me if you break into a store to grab anything you are a looter. I just don't hold anything against someone who either lost their provisions, or didn't have the common sense to stock up.
Really, anyone with any sense, the ability to walk, and the transportation means left town. Being a country boy, the thought of riding out the storm with 10,000 people in the Super dome gives me the heebie jeebies. I can hardly stand spending 2-3 hours jostling in and out of a place like that for a ball game. Where I grew up, if there were more than a few dozen people per square mile, we felt crowded. The company I work for has an extensive operation in Mobile (about 1000 people), and we packed everyone up who would go and flew them to St. Louis Wednesday and Thursday.
Actually, I figured New orleans was a total disaster area so why not let the idiotic looters walking off with TV's then figure out how to get power for them or how to eat them. I've spent plenty of time in New Orleans and I've actually walked on the levee that broke after the flood in May 1995. I told my co-workers on Monday morning that the levee's would not hold, and New Oreleans would flood again. Everyone whom I've talked to in New Orleans for years has had little faith in the levee's ability in protecting them from this very catastrophe, so it shouldn't be much of a shock.
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I've never been through a hurricane, but I have lived through a few tornado's, and flash floods. I've seen first hand what high speed wind driven projetiles can do to property and livestock. I don't understand the ignorant bravado that some people have in insisting on staying put rather than saving their own lives. In some ways too, I think the press made hay on the "supposed suffering" at the Superdome and the Convention Center. These people had some food, they had some shelter and if they had pulled together they would have been much better off. Meanwhile, off in the countryside or in the neighborhoods people were (and maybe still are) suffering and dying out of the camera's view.
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Really, anyone with any sense, the ability to walk, and the transportation means left town. Being a country boy, the thought of riding out the storm with 10,000 people in the Super dome gives me the heebie jeebies. I can hardly stand spending 2-3 hours jostling in and out of a place like that for a ball game. Where I grew up, if there were more than a few dozen people per square mile, we felt crowded. The company I work for has an extensive operation in Mobile (about 1000 people), and we packed everyone up who would go and flew them to St. Louis Wednesday and Thursday.
Actually, I figured New orleans was a total disaster area so why not let the idiotic looters walking off with TV's then figure out how to get power for them or how to eat them. I've spent plenty of time in New Orleans and I've actually walked on the levee that broke after the flood in May 1995. I told my co-workers on Monday morning that the levee's would not hold, and New Oreleans would flood again. Everyone whom I've talked to in New Orleans for years has had little faith in the levee's ability in protecting them from this very catastrophe, so it shouldn't be much of a shock.
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I've never been through a hurricane, but I have lived through a few tornado's, and flash floods. I've seen first hand what high speed wind driven projetiles can do to property and livestock. I don't understand the ignorant bravado that some people have in insisting on staying put rather than saving their own lives. In some ways too, I think the press made hay on the "supposed suffering" at the Superdome and the Convention Center. These people had some food, they had some shelter and if they had pulled together they would have been much better off. Meanwhile, off in the countryside or in the neighborhoods people were (and maybe still are) suffering and dying out of the camera's view.
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