Westbrook -
I’m just next door in central New Hampshire. You don’t have a well for water? A generator for the times when the snow shuts off power for long periods of time? You don’t stock up on food for those events?
You’re whining. You grasping for sympathy like a 22 year old girl who wants attention. You want to be a part of the Katrina crowd? Sounds like it.
I lived 20 years in New Orleans and 4 years in Pensacola and passed through many hurricanes and lesser storms there. Irene was much ado about nothing.
I got used to the snow storms after moving here and living in a rural town that has power outages often. Get over it and suck it up. Next time you hear about a ‘line of heavy thunderstorms’ moving through the South, you’ll know what it means.
> I’m just next door in central New Hampshire. You don’t have
> a well for water? A generator for the times when the snow
> shuts off power for long periods of time? You don’t stock
> up on food for those events?
We have *ALL* those things, but there are a LOT of people who do not. Would you have us just mock them and leave them to twist in the wind? Or would you like to at least offer prayers and concern? Some folks were much more adversely affected than you.
> You’re whining.
Reporting on how some people have been adversely affected is not whining.
Yeah, there weren’t as many affected as in some storms. Yeah, it wasn’t as bad as the plastic trauma jockey’s in the media said it would be. But there are a lot of people hurting today from NC to ME, with 38 dead and billions in damage.
Some of you have no compassion. I truly hope you never need it, but remember that you reap what you sow.
Exactly. 'Self-sufficiency' is a lost art...while people were flooding into the stores for bottled water, others were sitting home quietly filling containers from their tap...just in case. Others ALREADY had batteries; since storms knock out power ALL the time in New Hampshire. Others are home canning this year's harvest for food in the face of the inevitable power losses this winter.
Don't be dependent, folks...be independent. Storms happen, and will CONTINUE to happen. It is a sunny day...stock up.