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[Campground Cattle]

I don't get why people expect the government or x to help.

I chose to live in an area that is threatened by hurricanes and why I carry insurance. There is not an area of the country that is not exposed to some kind of natural disaster it is matter of picking your poison.

 

[MoGal]

yes they just announced on the news 33 counties in mo have been declared a disaster area and still 20,000 w/o electric in St. Louis.

The part I don't understand is that last month when this happened there were many in the city areas who became hostile with the electric company and tree trimmer services. So hostile that they announced on tv that anytime a worker was threatened they were to leave the area. Don't these people realize it just delayed having their service restored.

Yes I realize the hurricanes were much worse but these ice storms and hurricanes should bring people together to help each other out instead of the "what about me" syndrome. Have we (and I mean people in general here) become so selfish that we can't look beyond our own plight and help another???

the MO attorney general is already talking about suing amerenue for not getting service back sooner during last months ice storm and I disagree with doing that, but then I also disagree the way MO already has a huge lawsuit against amerenue for allowing the dam to burst at Taum Sauk. Yes it demolished Johnson Shut ins State Park but the state is wanting that park built back as a top of the line park at Ameren Ue's expense and of course that will raise rates so that everyone is paying for that park.

 

[aplusmnt]

i havent heard much about national disaster relief or makin huge news or all the whining and moaning from the ice storms that i heard when fl and la got hurricaned.

before i get stomped on here i was without power for 3 weks and was only about 10 miles from the eye of the storm. i managed as im sure most of those unfortunates up in the ice are but.....am i missing something.

some regions can hold there own i guess. lots of us did too but theyre still whinin bout it in the papers here.....i know i know...cold dont blow yer house down. well wind dont make yer fingers fall off or starve to death either

People aren't dying in these snow storms and blizzards like they did in New Orleans. No population center has been devastated like New Orleans in this snow storm. No regional government has been demolished like New Orleans in this snow storm. The comparison is a non starter.

I will grant you that it is not as big of an event as New Orleans. But the question is not how many die or the amount of devastation by the storm. The topic at hand is the attitude of those experiencing the catastrophe in their lives. In this area the comparison does hold weight.

We are in the middle of this ice storm. My parents are looking at no electric for maybe weeks. Same with my sister. We have electricity but have the ice and cold as them.

When you turn on the local news out of Joplin, they mentioned the scare of looting but the police officer being interviewed said it has not been a problem. When they interview people storming the motels, the interviews have been about how they are spending time with families playing games and just trying to stay warm. No one is whining about were FEMA is with Generators or money cards to pay the extra expenses the storm is causing people.

To deny the character difference of people in the Bible Belt or Midwest against those looting low lives from New Orleans in a non starting in my opinion. We can not make the New Orleans low lives better people by downgrading the upstanding people of the Midwest.

Even with out a storms, statistics and common sense shows the difference between New Orleans and the Midwest. All the storms do is magnify the differences and put it in the public eye.

 

[Wewild]

I don't get why people expect the government or x to help.

I chose to live in an area that is threatened by hurricanes and why I carry insurance. There is not an area of the country that is not exposed to some kind of natural disaster it is matter of picking your poison.

Good post.

 

[aplusmnt]

yes they just announced on the news 33 counties in mo have been declared a disaster area and still 20,000 w/o electric in St. Louis.

I know local news said empire had like 58,000 with out electricity other local electric companies added another 15,000 or so. Not sure how big of an area that took in, but it was a local Joplin MO station doing the reporting.

 

[Bama]

While I couldn't agree with aplusmnt more I would like to add. Those lowlifes in N.O. don't represent the rest of LA, Ms, and Al. The news only focused on them, most other folks just buckled up and dealt with what they had been handed. A good frind of mine had his roof blown off, everthing soaked. Several of us was going down to help him, he sent us in another direction to where folks were worse off than him. Those stories didn't make the news. Those in N.O. had their had out for someone to fill it, others in the area had their hands out also, except they were holding tools to help themselves. N.O. don't represent La., La. has a lot of good folks there.

 

[Wewild]

While I couldn't agree with aplusmnt more I would like to add. Those lowlifes in N.O. don't represent the rest of LA, Ms, and Al. The news only focused on them, most other folks just buckled up and dealt with what they had been handed. A good frind of mine had his roof blown off, everthing soaked. Several of us was going down to help him, he sent us in another direction to where folks were worse off than him. Those stories didn't make the news. Those in N.O. had their had out for someone to fill it, others in the area had their hands out also, except they were holding tools to help themselves. N.O. don't represent La., La. has a lot of good folks there.

Good post. I'd say that's why we need to vote more. Who care's who had a bad day or a bad time.... we all do. People who care about the slant the press throws on something usually hears what they want to.

We all have had bad times and we all will again. Dang it's sad. We never stuck our hand out or cared what was said about it. Life can be like a rollercoaster.

 

[aplusmnt]

While I couldn't agree with aplusmnt more I would like to add. Those lowlifes in N.O. don't represent the rest of LA, Ms, and Al. The news only focused on them, most other folks just buckled up and dealt with what they had been handed. A good frind of mine had his roof blown off, everthing soaked. Several of us was going down to help him, he sent us in another direction to where folks were worse off than him. Those stories didn't make the news. Those in N.O. had their had out for someone to fill it, others in the area had their hands out also, except they were holding tools to help themselves. N.O. don't represent La., La. has a lot of good folks there.

I know the media was so caught up with the if it bleeds it leads mentality and going after Bush that there had to be some good stories to come out of that area. If within New Orleans I am sure there was those helping, and then there was the smart ones that left the city and took their families to safety.

I think we have enough southerners on here to know the type of people most of them are! Shame the media chose to show the bottom of the barrel instead of the cream of the crop.

Kind of like Iraq, we do not get to see the good being done only the bad.

 

[Earl Thigpen]

i havent heard much about national disaster relief or makin huge news or all the whining and moaning from the ice storms that i heard when fl and la got hurricaned.

before i get stomped on here i was without power for 3 weks and was only about 10 miles from the eye of the storm. i managed as im sure most of those unfortunates up in the ice are but.....am i missing something.

some regions can hold there own i guess. lots of us did too but theyre still whinin bout it in the papers here.....i know i know...cold dont blow yer house down. well wind dont make yer fingers fall off or starve to death either

People aren't dying in these snow storms and blizzards like they did in New Orleans. No population center has been devastated like New Orleans in this snow storm. No regional government has been demolished like New Orleans in this snow storm. The comparison is a non starter.

And you probably won't see farmers and ranchers shooting at their rescuers either or people looting stores for TV's and beer when its their animals that need fed.

 

[Caustic Burno]

i havent heard much about national disaster relief or makin huge news or all the whining and moaning from the ice storms that i heard when fl and la got hurricaned.

before i get stomped on here i was without power for 3 weks and was only about 10 miles from the eye of the storm. i managed as im sure most of those unfortunates up in the ice are but.....am i missing something.

some regions can hold there own i guess. lots of us did too but theyre still whinin bout it in the papers here.....i know i know...cold dont blow yer house down. well wind dont make yer fingers fall off or starve to death either

People aren't dying in these snow storms and blizzards like they did in New Orleans. No population center has been devastated like New Orleans in this snow storm. No regional government has been demolished like New Orleans in this snow storm. The comparison is a non starter.

And you probably won't see farmers and ranchers shooting at their rescuers either or people looting stores for TV's and beer when its their animals that need fed.

Earl you are right on La has had the most corrupt government for years since Huey Long.
Why were the mayor and governor not held resposible.
They should have shot the looters down in the street like the animals they are.

You didn't see that crap in Texas when Port Arthur/Beaumont and Orange was hit. That area population and the surronding suburbs is larger tha N.o.
The reason why was it wouldn't be tolerated.
You get what you tolerate.
This area was a solid mass of DPS troopers Texas Rangers and National Guard.
I don't feel sorry for the first one of them living on the Gulf Coast you know the hazards and the preparations to take for a major storm and if you don't ,it is passed out yearly at every grocery store filling staion and on the local news no excuse.

Every City, County and State are required to have an emergercy action plan to deal with such events. N.O. did as well as La. and didn't follow it.
Everthing that happen to those people they are responsible for.
You and you alone are responsible for your own actions no one else.

 

[smallrancher]

Can't we all just agree that we are all VICTIMS? The way I see it is we all choose where we live, and there are different likely weather tragedies in different areas. We should all just take our respective turns at being victims. After all everything I have chosen in my life can be blamed on someone else or the government. HELP ME. IT'S TERRIBLE. I'M A VICTIM!!!!

 

[Saltydawg]

Agree 100% with Caustic's post.

Find a mirror if you want to blame someone, otherwise roll up your sleeves and go help yourself or someone else.

 

[Gate Opener]

While I couldn't agree with aplusmnt more I would like to add. Those lowlifes in N.O. don't represent the rest of LA, Ms, and Al. The news only focused on them, most other folks just buckled up and dealt with what they had been handed. A good frind of mine had his roof blown off, everthing soaked. Several of us was going down to help him, he sent us in another direction to where folks were worse off than him. Those stories didn't make the news. Those in N.O. had their had out for someone to fill it, others in the area had their hands out also, except they were holding tools to help themselves. N.O. don't represent La., La. has a lot of good folks there.

Good post.

What I noticed about Katrina was that there were people who were taking care of themselves, there were people out helping others, then there were the looters and the people who were sitting on the side of the hot highway waiting on someone to help them. I suppose they were so accustomed to handouts that they have no clue as to how to help themselves or just too lazy and sorry to do so.(elderly and disabled exempt)

Amazing that there were same circumstances different reactions from people.

 

[Gate Opener]

Because alot of the people displaced by Katrina have always been given everything they have anyway. Not used to working for all they have like country people. People expect country people to just make it on their own. Look at all the people in SW Louisiana hit by Rita. You didn't hear them complaining. I was down there and let me tell you man they had it bad. But you know what they say "the sqeakiest wheel gets the grease!"

We got pounded in Rita you wouldn't have known it news was still putting out stories about Katrina.
It is more about what the liberal communistic traitorous media wants to sell you, than the truth. The shame is Americans believe it is the truth because it was on the TV. This is a real soapbox with me as you turn on almost any TV show today they try to sell you against everything this country was founded on. Most tv shows are immoral, socialist at best and anti American and we wonder why we have problems. Seems like on today's media every other country or special intrest group is right and the American Christian is evil.
If Hitler had today's American media all of Europe would be speaking German today and Tojo would be in control of all the South Pacific and southeast Asia.

The Bible says that we are not of this world(thank you Jesus). It certainly shows. It is hard to believe some of the things that are going on around us. Shameful at the least.