Syrup Beaver
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Now, this may go against some of my own beliefs - but I'm starting to think taking food from a grocery store may not be quite as awful as stealing TV's and jewelry....
Bubbles said:Don't worry I've already tried to make this point in another thread.
zengirl said:I live in the midwest. Hurricanes are something I only experience when I turn on the news.
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.
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.
zengirl said:but who really thinks this can happen to them?
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.
Vanity, pride, and self-importance are some of man's most dominant characteristics, and most damning.ChikkenNoodul said:I do
Hells yeah, we're nothing but ants in the grand scheme of things. The earth STILL pollutes itself more than we do.
zengirl said:Uh, did you just comment on your own post?
Well it would be nice to know all that time and money wasn't wastedkiwi said:Don't you HOPE this happens to you so you can put all that preparation to good use?
********** this is what I thought I was quoting ********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
kiwi said:Don't you HOPE this happens to you so you can put all that preparation to good use?
have a good timegottoys? 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.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.
Enjoy. Bring back pics.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.