Katrina homeless victims - How can I help?

Well it is a noble gesture to donate money towards a good cause... but people really need to look out for themselves.

Plus I hate the thought of donating money and having it somehow end up in the hands of some of these looters or gun nuts.

Stealing food and drinkable water to live I can understand. Wading down the middle of the street chest deep in water with a stolen plasma TV over your head should get you shot.
 
Bubbles said:
Don't worry I've already tried to make this point in another thread. :eek:

At least someone is looking at things correctly. I mean we get like 5 a year that are suppose to destroy FL and not 1 single year have I or any of my friend evacuated for as long as I have known them. One year we will be in the same trouble and everyone will be asking for help just like the poor people are this week. And its not like FL has never asked for Hurricane relief before
 
zengirl said:
I live in the midwest. Hurricanes are something I only experience when I turn on the news.

Yeah, Brad was referring to how our group of friends reacted to all the evacuation warnings last year. We were just trying to point out how we will be like the people in the superdome 'cause none of us have taken this stuff seriously. I went to West Virginia with my family during Ivan last year, and because it missed us completely everyone thought I was a retard. All I'm saying is next time it might not make that turn and we will all be stuck because no one wants to leave early. :eek:
 
On a more serioius note, I heard an interview on news radio on my way to work this morning with a Chicago doctor who is in NO, he's an infectous disease specialist who was in town for a convention... anyway he said that due to the flooding, garbage, dead bodies and animals, that within 12 days there will be, without doubt, widespread ebola, ecoli, typhoid and other diseases which will prove fatal in current conditions. The death toll isn't complete just yet, many will get sick and many more will die. It's a sobering thought and it's very easy to say after the fact, "Yo, you shoulda gotten outta dodge" but who really thinks this can happen to them? I think when humans start to get too full of themselves, nature just has to throw them a curve like this to remind us, we're here at the world's mercy, not the other way around.
 
zengirl said:
On a more serioius note, I heard an interview on news radio on my way to work this morning with a Chicago doctor who is in NO, he's an infectous disease specialist who was in town for a convention... anyway he said that due to the flooding, garbage, dead bodies and animals, that within 12 days there will be, without doubt, widespread ebola, ecoli, typhoid and other diseases which will prove fatal in current conditions. The death toll isn't complete just yet, many will get sick and many more will die. It's a sobering thought and it's very easy to say after the fact, "Yo, you shoulda gotten outta dodge" but who really thinks this can happen to them? I think when humans start to get too full of themselves, nature just has to throw them a curve like this to remind us, we're here at the world's mercy, not the other way around.

I really do :heart: you. :D
 
zengirl said:
On a more serioius note, I heard an interview on news radio on my way to work this morning with a Chicago doctor who is in NO, he's an infectous disease specialist who was in town for a convention... anyway he said that due to the flooding, garbage, dead bodies and animals, that within 12 days there will be, without doubt, widespread ebola, ecoli, typhoid and other diseases which will prove fatal in current conditions. The death toll isn't complete just yet, many will get sick and many more will die. It's a sobering thought and it's very easy to say after the fact, "Yo, you shoulda gotten outta dodge" but who really thinks this can happen to them? I think when humans start to get too full of themselves, nature just has to throw them a curve like this to remind us, we're here at the world's mercy, not the other way around.


Very well put
 
zengirl said:
but who really thinks this can happen to them?

I do :fly:

zengirl said:
I think when humans start to get too full of themselves, nature just has to throw them a curve like this to remind us, we're here at the world's mercy, not the other way around.

Hells yeah, we're nothing but ants in the grand scheme of things. The earth STILL pollutes itself more than we do.
 
ChikkenNoodul said:
I do :fly:



Hells yeah, we're nothing but ants in the grand scheme of things. The earth STILL pollutes itself more than we do.
Vanity, pride, and self-importance are some of man's most dominant characteristics, and most damning.
 
ChikkenNoodul said:
e. lay out the sandbags in front of the store, prop up the belt-fed .30-06, uncork that bottle of Macallan 50, and wait for the looters
********** this is what I thought I was quoting ********
Exactly !! Freaks - where the hell are they going to plug that new tv in at?


... Ok I will go back on my meds. :D
 
elpmis said:
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HOLY SHIT. the black kid screaming is a nice touch.
 
Well I am off to NC to feel quilty about this whole thing from a mountain top and contemplate the meaning of life ... hold down the fort.
 
gottoys? said:
Well I am off to NC to feel quilty about this whole thing from a mountain top and contemplate the meaning of life ... hold down the fort.
You can't feel guilty over something you had absolutely no control over. It's nature, it happens.