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

The mayor says take them out, the governor says no, you can't do it legally unless they pose a threat to someone outside their home. In other words, if they want to stay in their homes and die there, they have the right to do so. If they leave their home and become a medical threat to anyone else, they can be removed. The border patrol works for he federal government and isn't going to remove anyone. The police work for the mayor and he says remove them. The national guard works for the governor who says don't. Such chaos.

Barbara Carlson wrote:
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 news:oWXTe.31253$1g2.24525@xxxxxxxxxxx

"Barbara Carlson" <bbcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:8JKdne8as_dWG4LeRVn-3A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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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