Re: What, no one is interested in watching the corn grow?


"Eliyahu Rooff" <lrooff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Barbara Carlson" <bbcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Yes, but if they have a home that is repairable (as one man with a lovely
>> home and possessions had) they don't want to leave because they are
>> afraid what they have left will be looted and/or destroyed. After Andrew
>> we had to be sure someone was at home all the time to protect the
>> property. Now the ones who have nothing left, I can't understand why
>> they won't leave, but if there is anything worth salvaging they have good
>> reason not to abandon it! And don't tell me that the people in doing
>> cleanup won't help themselves given the chance--at least some of them.
>> If they forced me to leave I would take pictures of everything and
>> threaten a law suit if I returned and found anything missing. Believe me,
>> if you managed to save things from the storm you don't want to lose what
>> is left!
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> A lot of those people who resist evacuation don't have nice homes and
> certainly don't have a camera to take pictures of everything. They just
> want to hang on to what's left of the life they know, the community in
> which they've lived for much of their lives, and the place they know. Many
> have never been on an airplane or traveled more than a hundred miles from
> home. Being hauled off to points unknown is going to seem to them the same
> as if you or I were told that we were going to be evacuated to someplace
> in China. Even the folks who have nothing left at all have the hope of
> staying with their local community, with friends and with relatives. It
> may not be a realistic hope, but people aren't ready to give it up.
>
> Eliyahu
The community they lived in is gone. Surely they can look outside and see
that, even if they don't have any TV to show them the magnitude and width of
the devastation. I saw on the news where they are being warned that no more
water or food will be delivered to them (wow - was that happening? I
thought no one was being helped); hopefully that will prompt them to leave.

Sandi


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