I was listening to NPR the other day. A New Orleans resident was complaining "we need food, we need water, we need electricity". I am amazed! Have people in US forgotten basic survival skills? Can't they think of buying few loaves of bread and storing few buckets of water before such storms?
Two years ago, after Katrina, New Orleans residents were looting Walmart and other stores for TV and Electronics and were dying of hunger. I couldn't help wondering why they wouldn't get inflatable boats and flotation devices available in all big sports stores and rowed themselves out of that misery. American's routinely buy boats and water vehicles. Hundreds of water sports establishments carry tens of thousands of water rafts. I wonder why no-one came forward to use that equipment to move New Orleans residents after Katrina's aftermath.
Has this country really forgotten how to survive?
Two years ago, after Katrina, New Orleans residents were looting Walmart and other stores for TV and Electronics and were dying of hunger. I couldn't help wondering why they wouldn't get inflatable boats and flotation devices available in all big sports stores and rowed themselves out of that misery. American's routinely buy boats and water vehicles. Hundreds of water sports establishments carry tens of thousands of water rafts. I wonder why no-one came forward to use that equipment to move New Orleans residents after Katrina's aftermath.
Has this country really forgotten how to survive?
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