There are some in this forum who think this is no big deal.
To them, floods like this, and living without tap water with a house full of kids and a barn full of animals with no way to get emergency aid if you need it, is no big deal. They go through it all the time and never have a care in the world about it.
This is the Socialist Republic of Vermont, the government is supposed to provide everything. I wonder what the percentage of people in blue states have emergency kits compared to the number of people in red states.
>> There are some in this forum who think this is no big deal.
Doubt it.
38 dead. At LEAST 7 Billion dollars in damage. Eastern North Carolina decimated. Vermont Flooded. But hey, it’s no big deal. It’s just a rainstorm. Politics are more important than people’s lives. After all, if NEW YAWK didn’t wash into the ocean, then it’s no big deal for everyone else.
You, at least, still have electricity. My elderly 70yr+ parents went 5 weeks with no power, no phone (landline OR cellular) and no water post katrina. They were 150+ miles from the coast. On the ‘clean’ side of Katrina. She went 60m or so to their east. Even IF my elderly dad had had a heart attack there was no way to *get* him to the hospital for a week due to 100+yr old trees down on their road. My parents had a generator, their own well and a wood burning stove for cooking. My mom did needlework in a rocking chair on the front porch during the day and at night they went to bed right after dark. It was 90+ during the day and muggy as all heck after dark. Not unlike conditions in 1900 before all modern convenieces.
Yes, it’s a big deal if you’re not prepared for it or unwilling to accept it as a fact of life.
Until you lose power though, and are affected for more than a week with *no* modern conveniences (which means you won’t be posting to complain about your travails) you aren’t going to get a lot of sympathy from anyone within 100m of the Gulf Coast. Sorry. (Rita, Katrina, Ivan, Ike, etc). It’s a way of life down here. And for the most part, ninth ward notwithstanding, we prepare for these situations.
Until then, use the electricity your computing device is using right now to boil some water. And, in the future, either put solar and/or hand pump on your well, or be prepared to deal with sanitizing the city/county water yourself. Get clorox at the very least, or pool shock and keep it with your prepper stuff. Get board games and books for the kids. And oil burning lamps.
At least the flooding in your neck of the woods didn’t scare up whole nests of poisonous snakes, alligators and fire ants. You *only* have the water and mud and inconvenience. Unlikely you’ll wake up next to a displaced moccasin or rattlesnake. Or lose a pet to displaced fireants.
So, in the nicest voice possible, ‘deal with it’.
Carry on.
I've been reading the posts lately. There was no hurricane. At most, a thunderstorm.
The whole deal was a product of the Liberal Press and Obama to take peoples mind off the economy.
Not me - I've been there. The remnants of Tropical Storm Erin did this to my town in 2007:
I had two feet of water in my office when the river stopped rising. There is no more helpless feeling than listening to the rain comes in torrents for hours on end.
I'll be praying for you and sending the Salvation Army some money to help. Good luck and God bless.