East coast storm shows preparedness is important!

[John Galt]

When we see storms like the recent East Coast storm it is sometimes too obvious that people have stopped depending upon themselves.

After reading this article  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/01/new-york-blizzard-snow-sto... I am appalled at the way people sat on there duff and "waited" for help to come!

The reaction and [lack of] self reliance and preparedness a of New Yorkers and East Coast residents has lead me to be even more disappointed with the American people than usual. If this is what we can expect of Americans I must say our country is doomed. Even in many lesser countries than the USA people get by day to day giving birth and mending bones without the help of an ambulance. The things that the populace of the storm ravaged region did not do is of greater importance than what they did do to help themselves. Folks, that is the kicker, they sat there and waited for someone else to help them! Using the lady with the broken ankle in the above story as an example, if that had been me I would have inprovised a sled and had my family dragging me to the hospital, or even the nearest doctors office. The lady giving birth in the vestibule is a very sad loss of a child, but why didn't these people find a way to get her medical attention?

 

Is this what our country has come to? Sitting around and waiting on others to make things happen? Like our climate here in Michigan, New York and the East Coast should be ready for these storms. Where were the shovels? Where were people banding together to help clear the streets? Where the stories of courage of our citizens getting out there and getting their cities streets cleared and back on track?

 

If waiting for help to come, being a victim instead of a leader, is all that the people of this once great nation are capable of we should not be surprised that our nation is no longer a superpower. We are making our bed, but it is the bed of a helpless nation.

I ask again, visit this site www.survivalblog.com.  There is a lot of info there, not all of it is for every person and that is okay, take what you can use and leave the rest.

 

If all each of us does is add a blanket, hat, gloves, boots, shovel, some water and bag of trailmix to your car, and a keep an extra weeks worth of food in the pantry we will be one step closer to being the surviviors that our ancestors were, instead of the victims we seem to have become.

 

Thank you for reading.

[Edie Lindsey]

Truth, Mr. Galt.  Self-reliance is one of the qualities which made America great. 

Big City people, rich and poor, become dependent on others, and so adopt the liberal mindset more often than us crusty rural hicks. 

Two questions, John, if you would: 

1)  Why were you reading the Huffington Post?  and

2)  What is your relation to this blog you've posted here now and before?  

Just axing!

[Willy]

From the article I see three situations that lead to the problem. 1. Lack of an early, accurate forcast by the weather service. 2, Plow trucks were not on the job ASAP. 3. People continued to travel in motor vehicles instead of parking their cars until the storm was over. I think everyone was to blame.