Re: Dolphins Moved To Hotel Pool For Protection from Katrina


"Bo Raxo" <invasions_r_us@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > "Bo Raxo" <invasions_r_us@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > I'd bet that if you look at the people who stayed behind with their
> > > pets,
> > > many actually have a vehicle, or know someone who does. They are
> > > just too
> > > stupid to know when to leave, and/or too stupid to plan ahead.
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> > How the hell do you plan ahead for something like this? It's not like
> > you knew how severe it was going to be a month ahead of time where you
> > could casually call for reservations, assuming again that they would
> > have room. There are not that many shelters around, they are often
> > full, and and poor, begging for money for food, medical care, etc.,
> > for those animals.
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> You plan ahead just like businesses plan ahead for disasters. You sit
down
> and make a list - if there was a hurricane coming, what would I need to
do?
> And you find out where you would evacuate to, and what you would do about
> pets. You call up friends who have pets and cars, and ask them what they
> plan to do if there is a hurricane. You arrange for one or more of them
to
> take your pets if there is an emergency. You figure out how to leave out
> some food and water for your pet if you have to evacuate and leave the
> animal behind (admittedly, a lot easier with cats, but there are
> battery-powered devices that dole out food daily for a pet if you're
gone).
> You make a p-l-a-n.
>
> Even if you don't have pets, you make a plan. For example, you have your
> friends and family in the area to pick one person who lives out of the
area,
> and make sure that is the person everyone calls to coordinate messages and
> meet-ups. You pick a place for everyone to meet if the disaster has
abated
> but communications haven't been restored.
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> Or I guess you can scratch your head and utter, "How the hell do you plan
> for something like this?" and when it hits, just flail around as best you
> can. As for me, I'm a planner. Cut off the power, water, and tear up the
> streets enough that I can't get my car out, and it'll be about a week
before
> I start to worry. And even then, it would mostly be worried about the
> smell...
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> Bo Raxo


It's harder to plan for a hurricane Bo. One doesn't know, often until the
last minute, which way it might take a turn towards. You don't know which
direction you might need to flee to, so 'deciding where you will evacuate
to' isn't possible ahead of time. As for *friends*, sure, but most people
have *friends* in their own socio-economic situation. If one is poor, ones
friends are usually poor also.

We here are a good 3 1/2 hours from the beach. During hurricane Fran, many
at the coast fled to Raleigh. But Fran blew through here fiercely, knocking
out power to nearly a million people. People who'd called ahead and got
reservations at motels/hotels here, were no better off because to begin
with, they weren't familiar with the city. The power was out for days, for
some weeks. Trees were down all over the city, trying to travel around was
impossible. All the grocery stores were closed because there was no power
for lights or cash registers. No restaurants or fast food places were open.
It was hot as hell, no power, no AC. Those familiar with the city to hear
by radio and know where to go, walk to, stood in line for a bag of ice,
sometimes up to twelve hours. Semi's filled with bags of ice would make
their way on the few roads that had been cleared, to a central location
where they'd hand out ice until their truck was empty. Many times, with the
unpredictability of a hurricane, the place one 'flees to' is often times
badly hit also. And then people are stuck in a strange town, one where they
know no one, trying to fend for themselves. You live in the same city you
grew up in. Raleigh is a city of transplants. If I had to guess, I'd say
by far, the majority of people living here have no close family anywhere
near by. We have many people originally from the northeast here, many from
the midwest, some from the west coast. It's quite a mixture of people. And
as I said before, one's friends are usually of one's own socioeconomic
group. Poor people usually have poor friends who aren't equipped to take
care of themselves.


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