Ike death toll in US rises to 30, tens of thousands stranded (Roundup)

AlSep 15th, 2008 - 22:35:13

I am trying to 'have a heart' here, but if you build on a barrier island then you are opening yourself up to 'what ever,' when a storm of any size comes through. People who don't do well with floods and the like need to reaccess where they are living i.e., Galveston and New Orleans. Tropical
weather patterns have been the norm on earth for 1000's of years and the forecast is for these storms to get even more fierce in the coming years.
Common sense would lend that if a you build a home on a barrier island,
good chance it is going to be impacted by a tropical weather pattern.
If you pitch a tent in 'Grizzly' country in Alaska, probabiblity of getting eaten is high. If you slap a wasp nests, probabiblity of getting stung rises significantly. With Hurricane Andrew, Katrina and now Ike, if you live in a barrier island region, along a coast line or even inland by 50 miles and you don't want to be impacted by a tropical weather pattern it's time to move......now.............

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BadtuxSep 16th, 2008 - 01:34:31

Most of the dead from Ike washed out into the Gulf when the waves receded and will never be found and, like most of the victims of Katrina, never counted.

As for the notion we should not care about people because of the choices they made... ah yes. So much for 'compassion'. So it goes in the United States of Delusion, where we pretend to be a compassionate people -- and then make sure we never have to live up to our rhetoric by blaming the victims and doing nothing compassionate to help them.

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SP4: Badtux? How about Johnny dildo?Sep 16th, 2008 - 18:08:45

BadtuxSep 16th, 2008 - 01:34:31

Most of the dead from Ike washed out into the Gulf when the waves receded and will never be found and, like most of the victims of Katrina, never counted.

SP4 - Nonsense. compared to any nation on earth, these losses are small, and mostly avoidable if the boneheads had just evacuated in the first place.

As for the notion we should not care about people because of the choices they made... ah yes.

sp4 - sure we should, and have, it just does not change the outcome!

So much for 'compassion'.

sp4 - see above, bonehead

So it goes in the United States of Delusion, where we pretend to be a compassionate people --

sp4 - f--k you. We rule the world when it comes to aiding other nations. 300 billion, per year, for defense of other countries, freeing 50 million people in two wars with over 4000 casualties, Billions more for AIDS and 22% of the United Nations operating funds, for which we get nothing but f--ked, the two best kept neighbors of any nations on earth, and a foreign policy that, for the last 60 years has taken every step to avoid catastrophic international conflict. Our trade partners and allies are the, SAFEST, most prosperous nations earth.

and then make sure we never have to live up to our rhetoric by blaming the victims and doing nothing compassionate to help them.

sp4 - we have 1000 rescue workers there, rescuing folks who could have just left. What you are is a culture-of-grievence libnazi, a dime-a-dozen.

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the Homecoming QueenSep 16th, 2008 - 22:45:02

Just so happens that I own a place on a barrier island. I know the risks and knew them when I bought so if by chance, a hurricane hits, my little beach house just may blow away and I will pay the price. This is why I'm not willing to pay for anyone dumb enough to stick around when an evacuation notice has been put out.

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Oscar 77Sep 17th, 2008 - 09:52:08

We may never know how many deaths. Some people that left may never come back. I consider the ones that stayed as mass suicide victims/survivors. They should have seen what happened in New Orleans with Katrina. But many of us fail to comprehend the emotional impact of an evacuation order when you can be assured that once you leave your house, everything will be destroyed and you cannot even come back to look for weeks. A year from now, there will be several thousand missing and presumed dead.

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