This is why so many do not evacuate when a storm approaches

[Allen]

This is what happens during broad daylight. Home looting is much worse and often a bigger target due to the presence of guns, jewelry, coins and better valuables than dollar stores. Law enforcement is spread out thin during these times and really not concerned about petty looting so it pretty much goes on unchecked. Other reasons are that homeowners can not get back to their homes due to downed trees, flooding, bridges/roads being washed out, having to travel across several states to find a motel room, congestion on the highways, traveling with pets and etc..

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...oodwaters.html

[dogtag]

These extreme weather emergencies bring out the best and the worst in people.
There's the Cajun Navy types rescuing people,
and there's the looters.
The first type should receive a medal
the other type should receive a bullet.

[Sandpebble]

Fri. 13 th Aug. 2004 Hurricane Charley

an hour after it passed the wife and I were confronting a 5 man gang attempting to enter our front door. They had come from 40 minutes south in a an area that saw no damage and didn't realise how pissed off we might be ...

I don't mind the head pat to the Cajun navy guys... but I have to say I'm disappointed that there are many other hero's that go unsung.....

we met a 55 year old women who left her family to sit for three weeks in sweltering heat under a tent to help people work out their insurance ....

we scored a free meal from a crew that traveled from the other side of the state to work for free grilling dogs and burgers for any one that had a need.....

phone service personel working to help families reconect might have got paid.... but they still left there families to be uncomfortable and help me out ...

National Guardsmen are real heroes.... as are the boys who came from the north to battle unfamiliar heat and conditions to get my electricity back on.....

God love em All

[dogtag]

You obviously missed that I said Cajun Navy TYPES - meaning all those that help.

[JB White]

These extreme weather emergencies bring out the best and the worst in people.
There's the Cajun Navy types rescuing people,
and there's the looters.
The first type should receive a medal
the other type should receive a bullet.

That's the best thing you've said all week.

[Vern Humphrey]

My grandfather was in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. He was being discharged from the Navy and in those days you got half your mustering-out pay on one day, and had to show up a different day, shined and shaved and in uniform, to get the other half. The earthquake occurred right after he drew the first half of his pay, and when he went back for the rest, he was pressed into service, fighting fires, rescuing survivors and guarding the ruins.

In San Francisco today, they only whisper about it, but Pop made no bones about it -- they shot looters. He told of one man with his arm all bandaged up who refused to go to the aid tent. That was suspicious, so they unwrapped his arm and found human fingers -- he was cutting the fingers off the dead to steal their rings. They just stood him up against the nearest wall and shot him,

[dogtag]

That's the best thing you've said all week.

Well, thanks, I suppose.
However, today is the first day of the week,
so it may be the only thing I've said this week.

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My grandfather was in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. He was being discharged from the Navy and in those days you got half your mustering-out pay on one day, and had to show up a different day, shined and shaved and in uniform, to get the other half. The earthquake occurred right after he drew the first half of his pay, and when he went back for the rest, he was pressed into service, fighting fires, rescuing survivors and guarding the ruins.

In San Francisco today, they only whisper about it, but Pop made no bones about it -- they shot looters. He told of one man with his arm all bandaged up who refused to go to the aid tent. That was suspicious, so they unwrapped his arm and found human fingers -- he was cutting the fingers off the dead to steal their rings. They just stood him up against the nearest wall and shot him,

When I was in Egypt, guard commanders were told that if
a wog was shot outside the fence by mistake, then drag him in.
Saved a lot of red tape.

[Vern Humphrey]

Well, thanks, I suppose.
However, today is the first day of the week,
so it may be the only thing I've said this week.

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When I was in Egypt, guard commanders were told that if
a wog was shot outside the fence by mistake, then drag him in.
Saved a lot of red tape.

I lived in Egypt from '54 to '56. If you shot every thief in Egypt, the country would be depopulated.

[dogtag]

I lived in Egypt from '54 to '56. If you shot every thief in Egypt, the country would be depopulated.

That's when I was there late 54 to 55 which is when we moved to Cypress.

[Vern Humphrey]

To a certain extent, this reminds me of the Mount Saint Helens eruption in 1980. If you go there, there is a museum, and there are news clips playing constantly covering the period leading up to and beyond the eruption. Prominently featured are clips of Harry R. Truman (not Harry S. Truman). He and his wife ran a fishing camp at Spirit Lake at the base of the mountain. He was well into his 80s and his wife had passed away. He still lived in the old camp, and refused to evacuate. Today, he is buried under 600 feet of volcanic debris.

Because of him, Oregon changed the law. Now if the Governor orders an evacuation, you have to go. They'll remove you forcibly if necessary.

I've thought about that. Where the hell would Harry R. Truman go if he evacuated? He'd probably wind up in a nursing home and slowly decline. Basically, he had a choice between risking a quick death, and a slow and miserable death. Who is to say his choice was the wrong choice?

[m1ashooter]

If a person doesn't want to evac then we should spend zero resources and risk zero lives rescuing them.

[Vern Humphrey]

If a person doesn't want to evac then we should spend zero resources and risk zero lives rescuing them.

That's reasonable. Blondie Hasler, leader of the Cockleshell Heroes in WWII, and a key player in forming the Observer-Star Transatlantic Race for sailboats, always said yachtsmen should not carry radio transmitters, "Because we go to sea for our own pleasure and have no right to ask someone else to risk his life to rescue us."