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crazikev,Sep 1 2005, 10:06 PM Wrote:^^ the thing about that though, is the poor people there can't afford to get ready for the storm, they are the ones that should be in the shelters, the people with cars should have been out of there, at least a day before the storm hit.

And as for the Ice Storm, and how it took so long to get the power back on, you can not blame the hydro workers for that.  Many of them came from all over the country.  My father was there.  They were working 18 hour shifts the whole time they were there.
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I could put togehter a "hurricane survival pack" for a family in N.O. for $20US. You'd have to cycle some of the canned goods every year and dry goods as well as bottled water every 6 months that is it. The problem is it requires effort/planning/commitment.

That is way less that the average "refugee" I see on TV now or met in persons there over the years who pisses away that much each and every day many times over on booze, drugs & Ho's. N.O. is a toilet overdue for a flush.

It's the US governments fault, educating people against "chemical attacks" before natural disasters is dumb. GW's response has itself been "disastrously" slow not to mention being too "proud (read: ghey) to accept aid from Canada.