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Originally Posted by Scottwax
Sad thing is, a lot of the loss of life was preventable if people would have evacuated the high risk areas as they were told to do. The looters certainly are not helping the situation either.
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I was stationed at Ft Polk many moons ago, and been to Nawleens a few times.
Without question one of the most beautiful cities I've ever had the pleasure to
visit in my lifetime. I feel bad that the town will never quite be the same, if
there ever is a town to go back to in the future. It is really rough out there now,
cause even though the the storm did not hit straight on, the water level is going
up. No electricity, no clean water, no food that you can really get to. And just
to make things interesting, there are reports that snakes and gators are roaming
about out there as well. Definitely not a place you want to be in right now.
That said, I have absolutely no sympathy for the morons who decided to ride it
out. It's one thing if you are unfortunate not to have a means to get to highground,
but it's another thing altogether to think you can actully survive a storm or it's
aftermath; especially when there was the indication that a portion of LA would be buried
under water. Now ther are all sorts of good folks out there risking their lives
to rescue the few idiots that did not have the common sense to leave when
they had the chance. As for the looters, well I sure they saw this as a windfall
oppurtunity. Here's hoping a few of them get bit in the tuckus by water mocasin
