From: Winget, William Contr JTFCS J5 (William.Winget@jtfcs.northcom.mil)
Date: Thu Sep 09 2004 - 07:33:15 PDT
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During Isabel last year the local police asked me if I would park my Deuce across the road as a road block, preventing Rubber-necked tourists from driving down our street while we worked recovery.
I had it positioned earlier to evacuate myself and family should the storm intensify, but it only came up to the running boards (That was enough...)
Interestingly, we had gas the third and fourth day, as I filled up my Bronco II with fuel before the Hurricane. MANY drivers did not, as they went out touring the first day or two after the storm, using up their fuel. Then THEY were in long lines waiting and complaining, whereas we stayed at home, cleaned out the damage and cooked our food up with foraging required a few days later.
People stay in lines bitching about water and Ice but won't walk into a store that sells it right beside the line. Or fail to drive 5 measly miles to a place that has power and businesses are open, selling gas, food, etc like normal. TV doesn't help much, as they immediately go back to "Sale" advertising and Jerry Springer as soon as possible instead of helping announce where functional communities are that people could locate the essentials without waiting in line for a handout. Fourth Day found a Chinese buffet open waiting for customers and we went to town with a nice hot meal each night while others merely complained...
Hope Ivan doesn't head toward Florida, one is enough, two is crazy, three would make me move or build a pill box.
Final note, What's so wrong with our Power Company systems (And were better than any in the World) Seems we still have too many trees falling on our lines VS clear cutting them prior to a storm, or (expensive) running systems under ground. Seems like we would want a hardened system for all future construction just to reduce these burdensome problems every Winter or Storm. IMHO.
W Winget
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