I think it was Sunday....I awoke in a cold sweat, having just had a nightmare where it was announced that Anderson Cooper had been murdered by (machete) decapitation. I immediately ran to my TV and turned on the news. Phew.....Anderson was still alive and well......unlike the Haitians he is reporting about about.
SHAME on the WORLD for taking SO LONG to make air drops of water and food rations. And the lack of medical care....SHAME! I don't understand it. But I NOW KNOW that I need to always be prepared to take care of myself and my own, because in case of severe crisis, my government IS NOT going to be my first line of defense. KWIM?
How could they make "air drops" over a ruined city?? drop stuff in a tent city and hit kids and flatten people? cause a riot?
do you realize the geography of Haiti? Mountains....and no good roads...where should they drop stuff?
They also had a gas shortage....what vehicles should they use?? Haiti had nothing before this
try dropping supplies into a slum in Calcutta ...
our government does well....they had NO government and nothing to start with..."no first line"
during a huricane we have nothing....they tell us at what time 911 will shut off and that is it...we might go 20 hours like we did in Jeanne with nothing...we are on our own
after Wilma the men in my neighborhood got together and lifted downed trees to get us out....2 days later
I have been in line for ice and been grateful for Fema provisions...our country took care of us...but not right away
I "know" one of the few people to die (sadly but preventable) in hurricaine..during Jeanne....
my next door neighbors good friend lives 1/2 mile away...with her sister and her 30 something son...
he was a smoker, they weren't....during a lull in the very long storm he went outside to have a cig and bam...the huricaine started up and lightning hit a tree which hit him
his poor mom and aunt got him in the house and tried to attend to him...for hours and hours (Jeanne was very long)...there was NO 911....NO help...no nothing...he died in their arms
sad but....let's get real....first responders are brave but they can't risk their lives foolishly...no one can get out in a storm...at some point we all have to realize that "things happen"...
what do people want?? if the "first responders" to Haiti had just flown into the airport they might have died in a plane crash...there were NO air traffic controllers...the runways were full of debris..
if they "dropped" rations on people's heads then oh my we would hear more anger from the media....if they start a riot with dropped rations...rotsa ruck