"JimLane" > wrote in message
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> Dee Randall wrote:
>> "Sandi" > wrote in message
>> oups.com...
>>
>>>jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>>>Gabby wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>"rosie" > wrote in message
legroups.com...
>>>>>
>>>>>>airlift people north ??? Are you kidding ? They can go north under
>>>>>>their own steam, there has been plenty of warning.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Gasoline prices will no doubt be impacted, this is only one of many
>>>>>>thing driving the price of oil.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I do hope all have gone to higher ground .
>>>>>
>>>>>Officials say there are tens of thousands who have no way of
>>>>>evacuating the area.
>>>>>
>>>>>Gabby
>>>>
>>>>No way? What, they don't know anyone with a car? Or does this mean
>>>>they
>>>>are being stubborn, as in the wake of the 1980's Mt. St. Helens
>>>>eruption, "I
>>>>won't leave, they can't make me".
>>>
>>>No Jill, it means many are poor and/or homeless urban inner-city
>>>dwellers who don't have cars or don't know people with cars. They are
>>>the elderly who don't drive and who don't have family members in the
>>>area who drive. They are the people with no choice but to stay. Your
>>>empathy, compassion, and respect for the elderly and poor who cannot
>>>evacuate on their own is overwhelming.
>>>
>>>Anyone else - like the tourists who think it's cool to stay - are fools
>>>who made the choice to commit suicide by hurricane. Because many
>>>Americans own cell phones, cars, have toilets, have electronics, they
>>>assume everyone in the world, including some of their fellow Americans,
>>>own the same. Too bad it isn't true.
>>>
>>>Sandi
>>
>>
>> Americans do NOT assume that that everyone in the world, including some
>> of their fellow Americans, own cells phones, cars, have toilets, have
>> electronics....
>> Dee Dee
>>
>>
>> Dee Dee
>
> Unfortunately, you are wrong. I've heard people say: "Give me your cell
> number, . . ," assuming the other person has a cell. Likewise for e-mail
> addy and so on. We ALL make assumptions sometime.
>
>
> jim

"everyone in the world"?
Whoo Hoo!
Dee Dee