Re: It Isn't All George Bush's Fault

On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:02:38 -0500, Nancy Rudins
<nrudins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Sarah Czepiel wrote:
>> From the responses we're getting it appears we're in the minority on
>> this walking out bit. So be it. I guess we overestimated the
>> physical ability of all those healthy looking people we saw milling
>> around the Superdome? Yep, I'd be hiking out and at 2 to 3 mph pace
>> I'd be outta there and down the road in no time. How many towns do
>> you think I'm going to encounter following the Mississippi upstream
>> for 20 miles? How many National Guard personal, Salvation Army and
>> Red Cross trucks might I encounter on the way?
>>
>
>By the time you get to the next town, maybe twenty miles away, you
>will have died of heat exhaustion walking without food or clean
>water in 95 degree weather with 95% humidity. 0

Wait a minute Nancy, everyone was told to bring enough food and water
for 3 to 4 days. I'd have food and water.....and I grew up in
southern Florida so heat and humidity I can deal with.

> I'll bet you couldn't get to the next block under those conditions.

I'll take you up on that bet Nancy. :)

>Just for a minute, imagine being poor and unable to get your paycheck
>because there is no mail, no bank, no communication system, no
>electricity, no running water, no food, etc. Imagine being one
>of ten to twenty thousand people who already walked to the Dome as
>you were directed, instead of staying in your house and dying when
>your insulin ran out. Imagine being one who does as told because
>you want to cooperate with the plan to evacuate the city and your
>neighborhood has no buses, you don't own a car, even if you did,
>you have no cash for gas to take you anywhere else.
>
>Imagine then wondering why the radio said to come to the Dome and
>finding out when you get there that no one shows up with food or
>water,

Go back and look at the news footage Nancy. Both FEMA and the Mayor
of NO told people to bring enough food and water for 3 to 4 days as
there would be none provided.

>no one is in charge so there is no one to question when
>help will arrive.

The National Guard troops?

> Imagine asking why four plus days have passed
>and you're wondering why you are here and how long you will have
>to live in the stiffling heat with no toilet, water, food, or a
>place to lay down.

Why would I imagine that Nancy? I've already said what I'd do.

> Imagine what you might do if some bully took
>your last protein bar and you're too weak and sick to do anything
>about it.
>
>You are not looking for someone to take care of you, but you
>cooperated as you often do and something is missing here and no
>one knows you are here, and that surprise, surprise, so many
>thousands of people could not fit in one Dome or Convention
>Center; you know nothing about them because you never come to
>either during your daily life. You've spent four days filled
>with personal responsibility and you are thirsty; you helped
>others afraid of the dark and comforted children and old people
>who are withering away. Several seem dead; one has your blanket.
>
>Imagine despite having already planned an elaborate phone-check
>for your family, and having practiced this plan ahead of time,
>you still can't locate your family and the taxes you paid to
>provide police protection and the National Guard during a
>natural disaster have failed you. Your yankee ingenuity just
>petered out right before you passed out.

Nice little story you've woven here Nancy but I wouldn't have had that
happen to me because I would have taken obvious measures to see that
it didn't happen to me.

Why is self reliance so incomprehensible to you?

>Then you can tell me how far and how long you'd walk.

A day or two, 15 to 20 miles per day.

>Kind regards,
>Nancy

YHAND Nancy.
.

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