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

Of course I realize that for the majority, probably. But, there were areas
of NO that were not flooded. They interviewed some of the people on one of
the news broadcasts. They have no phone or electricity, but they do have
homes that need to be protected and I don't blame them for not wanting to
leave. And many people do have cameras, especially in those areas. (I carry
a camera with me all the time in my pocketbook--love these tiny digital
cameras and cell phone cameras if they still have any charge!).

For those of whom you speak they need counseling, of course, to realize the
necessity to leave--not something readily available to them--but before you
carry them bodily off some attempt needs to be made to make them understand
or they will just be adding to the trauma. It's a tough situation.

Barb C.
"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!
>>
> 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
>


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