"Sandi" > wrote in message
oups.com...
>
> jmcquown wrote:
>> Gabby wrote:
>> > "rosie" > wrote in message
>> > ups.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