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| Aiwendil |
| I think the number of people who stayed behind in anticipation of the looting and violence they would be able to do in the aftermath of the hurricane is larger than you'd like to think. You assume everyone who stayed behind and are now roaming the streets with guns did so because it was just so impossible for them to get out of town. That's a very naive view. |
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| Protege |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
People underestimate the power of hurricanes and it’s easy to do so when you haven’t really been directly affected badly like the people of hurricane Andrew back in 94 (I think?). |
It was 92. |
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| dinoXpress |
Haha, stuipid americans.(im 1/3 gringo with passport)
There are massive floods every year here in bombay and there is NO looting and violence.
it rained 40 inches in 3 hours.
stupid americans need to live a little.
and any poverty in the uSA is BULL. i live next door to poverty. i see literally millions of people living in EVRY ING DAY.
I laugh at this . |
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| dinoXpress |
Yall would declare state of emergency if you evenb walked into bombay!
ahh millions of people living in !! and this is only one city!!
wait.. lets send people to space... and then watch them almost die cuz we ed it up with all the billions of dollars we use. |
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by dinoXpress
Haha, stuipid americans.(im 1/3 gringo with passport)
There are massive floods every year here in bombay and there is NO looting and violence.
it rained 40 inches in 3 hours.
stupid americans need to live a little.
and any poverty in the uSA is BULL. i live next door to poverty. i see literally millions of people living in EVRY ING DAY.
I laugh at this . |
good...then stay where u belong. |
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| dinoXpress |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
good...then stay where u belong. |
i will, and have no intention of ever living in the us again, not because of this at all, but once u travel, you realize what a joke the usa is. |
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by dinoXpress
i will, and have no intention of ever living in the us again, not because of this at all, but once u travel, you realize what a joke the usa is. |
once again..good stay there...i'm glad u laugh at something so tragic. |
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| dinoXpress |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
once again..good stay there...i'm glad u laugh at something so tragic. |
oh u misinterpret what i say.. when i said i laugh at this i was referring to the idiots looting and causing trouble.
never seen something like this in their life so they resort to violence.
im sorry but thats stupid.
by no means am i laughing at the tragedy, but the real tragedy is the way people are acting. |
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| biznology |
the situation in NOLA is not the same as any other hurricane prone area.
in fact, if no one was there the delta might have spared Mississippi, Alabama - but alas...not so much. the problem IS man vs. nature - the US Army Corps of Engineers versus the Mississippi River.
most dont care here and would rather blame the poor, blacks or Bush - but if you want to know the real roots of the subject check out The Control of Nature by John McPhee. It details the attempts, oversights and previous problems with controlling an uncontrollable force of nature: the Mississippi River.
if two people actually read the book i will be surprised. most just have glazed over eyes and blame an easy target|
READ!! The Control Of Nature (amazon) |
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| gregi88 |
I still think that there's already enough violence and problems there, and we don't have to fight ourselves in this forum.
In every tragedy lives a hope, and for me, to connect people around the world, to give the rest of the world the possibility to see that american people are not george w. bush. To finnaly see that american people are like us, quite normal and asking for help because they simply suffer could be a "good thing".
Since around 5 years, the whole world began to hate america, just because of a president. But america is not a president, it's million of lifes, of people (in case very friendly in most case...)
And I don't see any reason to find this tragedy funny juste because you don't like Bush.
Spare your brain, and just thinks... There are thousands dead people there. The least you could do is not to tell anything about it. Perhaps do you think that an american dead body is quite funny, But if, as you tell us, are living near Bombay, you should have seen such a dead body. Did you laugh?
I don't think so.
So, try to be more intelligent that this president you don't like (in fact I really doesn't like him....) ;
Be supportive and give respect to human lives.
All of these people there, it could be one of us one day, even you. |
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| A.J. |
The situation in New Orleans is unbelievable. :crazy: :eyes: :confused:
The government over there seems to have screwed up bigtime, and the rescue effort seems to be totally chaotic at the moment.
I tell you what, if I was a US citizen i would be FUMING at the completely inadequate preparation/response to this disaster by the authorities.
This is a great tragedy :( |
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| dinoXpress |
| quote: | Originally posted by gregi88
Spare your brain, and just thinks... There are thousands dead people there. The least you could do is not to tell anything about it. Perhaps do you think that an american dead body is quite funny, But if, as you tell us, are living near Bombay, you should have seen such a dead body. Did you laugh?
I don't think so.
So, try to be more intelligent that this president you don't like (in fact I really doesn't like him....) ;
Be supportive and give respect to human lives.
All of these people there, it could be one of us one day, even you. |
you are so right. and like i said, the force of nature is nothing to be scoffed at. but the blatant lack of respect is another.
ive been through volcano eruptions in ecuador and monsoons here tornados literally 500m away from my house in houston.. im no stranger to natural disaster. |
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