Re: OT: Katrina -- Whom To Blame

> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:43:55 GMT, Jeremy <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>> Maybe you should read my other posts on this topic before opening
>>> your arrogant mouth and stuffing a foot in it. :-) I am fully
>>> aware of the quake activity in the Interior of Alaska and I am
>>> prepared.
>>
>>What about the coastal earthquakes and how can you prepare for 8.8 and
>>above?
>>
>>JJ
>
> I do not live in a coastal area. Why would I need to prepare for a
> coastal event? If you read and researched earthquakes in the Interior
> of Alaska, you would see that the Denali fault line is thought to be
> incapable of producing anything over the 7.9 we got hit with a couple
> of years ago.
>
> So, how do you prepare for an 8.8 or above? Pray. Have supplies
> stored in various locations. Be able to live off the land, if it
> comes to that. Look man... we could get hit with some minor quake,
> like a 6.5 or whatever... a tree could fall on my house, killing me
> in my sleep. A huge crater could swallow up my truck on the way to
> work, thereby killing me.
>
> We can play all the "waht-ifs" imaginable. The fact is, if one takes
> even miniscule efforts to be prepared for disasters that could hit
> their area, the chances for survival go way up. Or one can simply go
> through life, living in that little box, not thinking about it, and
> when something does happen, have their lives be completely dependant
> upon someone who _did_ prepapre.
>
> My belief is that our government should not be burdened with trying to
> save people who have not done anything to save themselves. It is like
> trying to get an alcoholic to stop drinking. I've been through that
> with my father. It finally got to the point where he yelled, "Hey!
> It's my life, I'll live it any way I choose, and you can stay the hell
> out of it!". I tried being positive, I tried being negative...
> nothing mattered. He has no retirement, at all, and is 56 years old.
> He used to joke that "my kids are my retirement!". As his oldest
> child, I told him a few years ago that I am not his retirement. And
> if he wasn't going to do anything to take care of himself, then he
> cannot expect me or someone else to be burdened with him, once his
> body has wasted away.
>
> Sad truth is... he'll be working until the day he dies. And being an
> alcoholic and pot head who doesn't see anything wrong with the
> inability to take care of oneself, and expecting others to pick up the
> burden when he is too old, there is nothing anyone can say to make him
> change his mind.
>
> So what can one do? One can step up to the plate, let him, the
> people, or whomever, know your standings on the matter, then get on
> with one's life. The motto that springs to mind here is, "There is no
> such thing as a free lunch.".
>

This should be cross-posted to the alt.fan.heinlein group... They'd
like it a lot I believe.

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