Re: Hurricane relief

[Gary Drescher]

"john smith" > wrote in message
.. .
> That's called scrounging. Losing everything you already have is a
> contingency.
> How many times did you see the helicopters going to check out what was
> causing smoke? Every time didn't they?
> Want to get rescued first? As soon as you see or hear the helicopters
> flying, start a fire with thick black smoke, someone will come to see what
> it is. What do you think is easier to see, someone waving their arms as a
> helicopter goes cruising by, or a column of black smoke a couple miles
> away?

You're weaving an astounding fantasy here. There were people atop houses
throughout the flooded city, painting SOS messages on rooftops and waving
large white sheets that were plainly visible, but to no avail, because the
rescuers were not there. Moreover, 20,000 people had followed the
authorities' instructions to take shelter in a stadium (which they were then
forbidden to leave because of the rising flood waters) where they found
themselves trapped for days without food, water, or lights, with
temperatures in the upper 90s, immersed in raw sewage and surrounded by the
decaying corpses of people who had already died of dehydration. And you want
them to *light fires* to call attention to themselves?

--Gary

[john smith]

Gary Drescher wrote:
> You're weaving an astounding fantasy here. There were people atop houses
> throughout the flooded city, painting SOS messages on rooftops and waving
> large white sheets that were plainly visible, but to no avail, because the
> rescuers were not there. Moreover, 20,000 people had followed the
> authorities' instructions to take shelter in a stadium (which they were then
> forbidden to leave because of the rising flood waters) where they found
> themselves trapped for days without food, water, or lights, with
> temperatures in the upper 90s, immersed in raw sewage and surrounded by the
> decaying corpses of people who had already died of dehydration. And you want
> them to *light fires* to call attention to themselves?

No. This thread has digressed from the failure of individuals and
governments to make the right decisions in the face of impending
disaster to a treatise on survival skills. It has gotten way off topic.

[Matt Whiting]

john smith wrote:
> Gary Drescher wrote:
>
>> You're weaving an astounding fantasy here. There were people atop
>> houses throughout the flooded city, painting SOS messages on rooftops
>> and waving large white sheets that were plainly visible, but to no
>> avail, because the rescuers were not there. Moreover, 20,000 people
>> had followed the authorities' instructions to take shelter in a
>> stadium (which they were then forbidden to leave because of the rising
>> flood waters) where they found themselves trapped for days without
>> food, water, or lights, with temperatures in the upper 90s, immersed
>> in raw sewage and surrounded by the decaying corpses of people who had
>> already died of dehydration. And you want them to *light fires* to
>> call attention to themselves?
>
>
> No. This thread has digressed from the failure of individuals and
> governments to make the right decisions in the face of impending
> disaster to a treatise on survival skills. It has gotten way off topic.

And failure of individuals and governments was ever ON TOPIC for r.a...
groups? :-)

Matt