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Re: Re: GUSTAV |
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Roy |
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Aug 30, 08 - 8:24 AM |
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royalcatraz@hotmail.com |
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One should seek professional help if they hear the word hurricane and immediately run out and rent a Uhaul truck to stuff full of water and canned meat that they wouldn't normally feed to Fido much less consume as sustenance for themselves. I personally eat the stuff from time to time (yeah, I know) and so does the rest of my family, so hey, we already had a few in the cabinet.
I could have grabbed quite a few people and just shaken them very vigorously. Anyone else notice the behavior of people shopping for their supplies? I was shopping at Wal-Mart last night at around midnight for non-hurricane-related items, and well, people had to watch their buggies like a bunch of hawks! People would walk up to other people's buggies all googly-eyed looking at the things they had, asking where they found this and that, cause they didn't see any on the shelves when they looked.
You would think that after so many hurricanes moseying through here, and living on the crust that is flaking off of the sole of this ol' boot, that more people would be better prepared ahead of time and not have to empty the shelves of every possible non-perishable food item and bottle of water in every possible store. I know my family has never been completely prepared ahead of time, but you never saw us leaving Wal-Mart with three buggies: one full of water, one full of potted meat, vienna sausage, beenie weenies, ramen noodles, and chef boyardee, and another full of batteries, flashlights, kerosene, and more water stuffed under each buggy loaded with cases and fridge packs of Coke, etc. Most I've ever seen my family have to do is pick up an extra loaf of bread or two and some batteries if the ones already in our old flashlights were going dead. We don't buy water at the store. We always just fill up old 2-liter Coke bottles with faucet water.
I also actually heard people saying how this storm was going to run them broke. Since when do we in South Louisiana panic and run ourselves broke when a storm is in the Caribbean? I mean, sure it's better to be safe than sorry, but jeez!
Also... evacuating... what? 4 days? or even 5 days before it's anywhere near here? It just seems that everyone is getting too hysterical waaaaay too soon for a storm that could just as easily run up Florida or go over to Texas and make everyone feel pretty stupid. I'd personally like to enjoy my own home as long as I can before leaving it and who knows, maybe never seeing it again. Yeah, I sound like a "last minute" person, but I'm not really. I'm more of a few-minutes-before-the-last-minute kind of person, but I'm definitely not an assume-and-schitz-out kind of person.
I guess when the levees broke in New Orleans after Katrina, everyone became meteorologists and now every piece of dry land south of I-10 floods up to the rooftops no matter where it is. Sure, New Orleans DEFINITELY needs to evacuate entirely. I wouldn't trust a brand new levee either! Have you seen the topography of the city compared to the Houma/Thibodaux area? Are we entirely below sea level? Are we completely surrounded by levees? I'll spare you the answer cause I think you know it, but honestly, I really don't think some people around here get it at all.
Maybe I'm just used to the folks from down on the bayous. When I was a kid, the frenzy was more about securing your house and family than emptying a store and your wallet. People already had wood for their windows (most sill had nails in it from the last boarding up job they did) so all they needed was a hammer and a friend or relative. They kept canned goods in their pantries. If they didn't have a gas stove, they had a generator. If they didn't have a generator, they bought lots of ice. If the storm was in the middle of the Gulf pointing toward anywhere to the west, they left and ran for the hills. If they couldn't get their hands on a week's supply of water, they knew how to make potable water out of the "possibly contaminated" water that came out of the faucet. If they couldn't afford the gas and lodging to actually get out of town far enough to find vacancies at hotels, then they had a back up friend or relative with a little extra space. If all else failed, Terrebonne Parish actually had shelters for any category storm! IMAGINE THAT!
So don't worry about me. I'll be safe. I know the drill.
---Roy--- |
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