EnjoyLife Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 Best wishes to all those folks in Florida effected by this storm. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETIREDFAN1 Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 Those of us down this way can relate to their struggles....... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte1076 Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 41 minutes ago, RETIREDFAN1 said: Those of us down this way can relate to their struggles....... I've never quite understood the folks who say, "I'm gonna stay and protect my stuff!" From what, exactly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnjoyLife Posted September 29, 2022 Author Share Posted September 29, 2022 34 minutes ago, Monte1076 said: I've never quite understood the folks who say, "I'm gonna stay and protect my stuff!" From what, exactly? Yep. My life is more important than my possessions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryLaverty Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 I've known of a least a handful of times when someone kept driving into areas where 'turn around, don't drown' signs were that exactly that happened, when they didn't make the right choice. People handle disaster or stressful situations terribly sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETIREDFAN1 Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 1 hour ago, Monte1076 said: I've never quite understood the folks who say, "I'm gonna stay and protect my stuff!" From what, exactly? Looters......I've never evacuated...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte1076 Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 27 minutes ago, RETIREDFAN1 said: Looters......I've never evacuated...... Maybe. But what are they gonna loot if your stuff is damaged? A broken TV isn't worth much to a looter, I would imagine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETIREDFAN1 Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 51 minutes ago, Monte1076 said: Maybe. But what are they gonna loot if your stuff is damaged? A broken TV isn't worth much to a looter, I would imagine. Looters was my answer to why those people stay.....my own reasoning is different.....I personally don't need some government flunky telling me when I have to leave my home.....I'll make that decision on my own......and so far I've never seen the need for evacuating....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Rab Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 2 hours ago, Monte1076 said: I've never quite understood the folks who say, "I'm gonna stay and protect my stuff!" From what, exactly? God of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte1076 Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 2 minutes ago, RETIREDFAN1 said: Looters was my answer to why those people stay.....my own reasoning is different.....I personally don't need some government flunky telling me when I have to leave my home.....I'll make that decision on my own......and so far I've never seen the need for evacuating....... But again, why worry about looters? They're probably gonna have to replace stuff anyway. Wind and water damage, and whatnot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Rab Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 8 minutes ago, Monte1076 said: But again, why worry about looters? They're probably gonna have to replace stuff anyway. Wind and water damage, and whatnot. This is the perfect legal opportunity to shoot a criminal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnjoyLife Posted September 29, 2022 Author Share Posted September 29, 2022 12 minutes ago, RETIREDFAN1 said: Looters was my answer to why those people stay.....my own reasoning is different.....I personally don't need some government flunky telling me when I have to leave my home.....I'll make that decision on my own......and so far I've never seen the need for evacuating....... So...if it turned out you made the wrong decision...and water was neck deep in your home...would you call for help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveTV1 Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 2 hours ago, EnjoyLife said: So...if it turned out you made the wrong decision...and water was neck deep in your home...would you call for help? You can't call for help, because help can't get to you. You're stuck even if it's waist deep. When Harvey hit my side of Houston it was just a sprinkle almost the entire time, but it never stopped to drain off. The Sunday morning that it was raining I tried to leave my house to go to work. I got up to the second street above mine and the water was waist deep. I turned around, because I lost my 87 Camaro in a rainstorm crossing a bridge where the water wasn't even above my headlights, and my car stalled. The water rose up to the windows so I rolled them down and got out. They don't have enough boats to rescue everyone. The Cajun Navy didn't even get down there until today. I knew a woman that lived in the Memorial area of Houston. She called for rescue on Saturday night when water began coming into her condo. She was my old buddy's sister. He had a truck and couldn't reach her and emergency responders had more calls. She was in her 80's, but kept calling every 2 hours. The found her on Thursday after the water receded, but the water reached the roof of her condo. Never in the past had they released the water from the resevoirs in her area and she had been living there since 1972. She didn't have a car, and had no way to leave. If you stay with flooding you can only get to higher ground. Luckily for me, I only had about 2 inches of water in my kitchen which is on the first floor. I hate this for their area, but I would think that they are more use to Hurricanes than even people in Texas. They get hit almost once every year if not more by a hurricane. I wish that the people would get the help they need, but I wouldn't donate to the Red Cross. They hardly helped anyone get anything down here except a few. Mattress Mac did more for people from what I saw than the Red Cross. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETIREDFAN1 Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 3 hours ago, Monte1076 said: But again, why worry about looters? They're probably gonna have to replace stuff anyway. Wind and water damage, and whatnot. Ask one of them.......they don't owe anyone an explanation for their choices........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETIREDFAN1 Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 3 hours ago, EnjoyLife said: So...if it turned out you made the wrong decision...and water was neck deep in your home...would you call for help? If water ever reaches the end of my yard, everyone south of Colmesneil is in deep crap......I live on a nice hill.....lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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