registering said:
Dumb people are dumb people but most people die in hurricanes because life is cruel and unfair, and not because they're morons. Luckily you don't have to worry about that because you're young, rich and brilliant, and will never grow old. (and yes, fleeing costs money, even to an evacuation shelter!)
Sweet...
Surviving many o' hurricane in the last 15 years, (including, yes, andrew in '92, the storm of the century '93???, surfing bertha and charles in '96 in daytona (awesome by the way, 16'-18' chop with a three hour paddle out, sorry), Irene in '99, frances and Jeanne from last year (in boynton, so not so bad) and this one, so far this year, I would like to assume that I can speak from experience. Relatively speaking, I am young, 27 this year, just about to settle down with wife and kids kinda thing. I'll probably never be rich unless I win the lotto. And if all possible, I'll never grow old. Should I not live forever, I'll shoot heroine up when I'm 80, just so I don't have to be a burden to my kin. But through these hurricanes of which I have lost MUCH personal property, including waste from no electricity, I have still made it. Why is that? Luck, karma, "right area", etc. But you still need a head on your shoulders. Where I live, is the retirement capital of the world, Tamarac, Coral Springs border. There are more kings point buses on the roads of this town than that of the entire Broward community transit. Yet, even the elderly and the handicapped have places to go and people to care for them, in the event of a natural disaster. When I did the volunteer work down in homestead, after Andrew, we WERE handing out not only food, ice and water, but medicine directly to what was left of people's homes. As for the poor there are two reasons why people are poor; abandonment and lack of education. If poor people had education, they would get better jobs than making my hamburgers from McDs. And its not like the storm surge really kills poor people. How many poor people live near the beach? Better yet, how many poor people live up there in Boca Raton by you, with an average annual household income of $175,000.00?? The problem is that people do not take these storms seriously. On the way up to my parents-in-law last thursday, about 5:00pm, the cars on the highway had to slow to 35mph b/c we couldn't see ten feet in front. I was one of those idiots. And trust me when I say that there were alot of these idiots on the road. People were still on 595 at 8:30pm that night. A truck even tipped on a "flyover" from 441 to 595. These are the idiots I am referring to. The idiot who says to himself, "hmmmm, its lightening up, let me go stand under my tree." and bam it falls over and kills him, well, so be it. Like you said, life is cruel and unfair, but as darwin said, "survival of the fittest". People, in general across the world, have a tendancy to say, "it will never happen to me." Those are famous last words for ones not prepared. Do you remember the fable about the grasshopper and the ants?
And not to mention, even if you're homeless in south florida (and there are alot) we are so inundated with hurricane coverage and preparations that EVERYONE and I mean EVERYONE knows what you should and should not do. If (figuratively) you neglect these warnings from all forms of media, then I consider you an idiot. Because your the one that will say, after the storm, "how were we supposed to know?" Hypocrites are idiots, too!!!!
P.S. I will take the brilliant complement, though, tylol
