Hell on Earth

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Rook - I just heard on the news that the population of Baton Rouge may double by Monday. Go buy stuff today - gas, food, water, a bottle of bleach to purify water, an extra cell phone battery, etc.

You can have it good, fast, or cheap: pick two.

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Rook - I just heard on the news that the population of Baton Rouge may double by Monday. Go buy stuff today - gas, food, water, a bottle of bleach to purify water, an extra cell phone battery, etc.

Just calm down, lets not overreact today. The stores are well stocked. Wal-mart and Albertsons have got trucks rolling and they are doing a great job keeping the shelves stocked. As for buying water, I have running water that is drinkable so not a big deal there. As for bleach to purify water, you can do that if you want to, I sure as hell wont be. Extra battery for phone is silly. It's not that bad. Gas is in a little short supply because everybody is scared and hording all they can. But with the shit I work I usualy go get it in the middle of the night. As for now I am full of gas. The only thing I had a hard time finding was ammo for my Sig .357. I had a hell of a time finding those. The Sig .357 isnt even a popular round and it was hard to find. Dont even try to find .40 or .44 rounds. Those babies are gone.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck!

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Hi Rookie

Glad to hear your doing ok
It's nice to hear a word of calm in the storm
Your were running out of ammo

Be careful and make every shot count, no telling how long it's going to take to get more.

Good luck
R.I.P.

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Your were running out of ammo

Not from whats going on. I go to the range a lot and I was getting low on ammo. I was completly out of Sig.357 and thats the one I carry concealed.

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Be careful and make every shot count,

I was on a sniper team in the army so I hope like hell I can make them count.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck!

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Your were running out of ammo

Not from whats going on. I go to the range a lot and I was getting low on ammo. I was completly out of Sig.357 and thats the one I carry concealed.

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Be careful and make every shot count,

I was on a sniper team in the army so I hope like hell I can make them count.

Hi Rookie

I'm just yankin your chain
First you ran out of booze and then ammo

The damn Hurricane season is only half over Hope we're lucky for the rest of the season, if not and we take another hit hope the powers to be learned their lesson and have their act together.

Rookie listen up Lesson learned A@B (Ammo and Booze)

R.I.P.

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yeah I get a little wound up sometimes. Be sure to stock up on the essentials - milk, eggs, bread, beer & wine :)

You can have it good, fast, or cheap: pick two.

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I'm just yankin your chain

First you ran out of booze and then ammo

The damn Hurricane season is only half over Hope we're lucky for the rest of the season, if not and we take another hit hope the powers to be learned their lesson and have their act together.

Rookie listen up Lesson learned A@B (Ammo and Booze)

Yeah I know you just yankin. It's all good fun. Things are going good here except for not being able to jump now. I have a new canopy and want to jump it some more but that will have to wait.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck!

[airtwardo 7]

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"Mandatory evacuation" didn't mean that the government made it easy, or even possible.

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I don't usually come into SC but was directed here by a friend....so here's my rant.

Why is it the government's duty to make it easy?

Hell, they can't fix the potholes on the highway!

What about some personal responsibility?

Okay...I'm a redneck, I was raised in the 50's & 60's when nuke warfare was a real fear...in addition to the duck & cover drills at school, my dad went through with us kids, what he thought would actually happen if the Russian Bear attacked. We had food and water stored... we were told how things would be and how desperate people would react. I remember Pops saying how canned food and ammunition would be the only currency if Chicago were to take a nuke. (we were 200 miles south)

It made me realize at a very young age that "I" have to take responsibility for myself should the unthinkable occur.

Everywhere I've lived as an adult I've made sure that I could live without infrastructure of any kind for 3 days minimum. I've thought in detail about possible contingency plans...It only makes sense!

My kids know how to camp, fish...poop in the woods and use a water purifier. I'm not a gloom & doom kind of person, but you HAVE to plan for the worst while hoping for the best...THAT'S Survival!

This whole Houston thing has us all spinning!
Yes I understand that people are dying and in need of assistance...We've donated until it hurts...This is a REAL situation and there is REAL need out there.

But on the other hand, my number one responsibility is to my family.

I'll do whatever it takes to see that their needs and safety are taken care of.

We live up here 20 miles from downtown in 'yuppieland' and yes the 'haves' are on edge...things are weird out there, as one might expect during a crisis of this nature. Things have drastically changed because of this emergency.

...I was approached in the Randalls parking lot two nights ago by three young men in a most intimidating manner. My wife is afraid to go anywhere alone because we are now living with people around us that are hurt, angry, and just came from a place where the rules don't apply.

My kids are afraid to ride their bikes to school because there are 'scary' men walking the greenbelt trails...

Our lives are affected, but I'm not expecting the government to rush over and make the bike trails safe... It's up to me to see that the kids get to where they need to be safely. Weak analogy perhaps but it's a sliding scale.

It IS a crisis situation that took everyone by surprise,
I DO have compassion for the people that have lost everything and must endure this, I don't have sympathy for those that could have done better for themselves but instead expected someone else to 'take care of them'.

THe Astrodome as of today has it's own Zip code so that the 9000 plus welfare checks the 25,000 people 'living' there are expecting on the 15th can be delivered. This tells me that the majority of the people in that arena have come to be dependent on others seeing to their needs. The job market, housing market, social services CAN NOT handle the influx of these people. That is a cold fact.

Things are getting ugly here and this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Hope for the best...plan for the worst.
We are currently investigating moving out of the area, in fact we'll likely be gone before too much longer.

Why? Because we can...and for the time being it's probably better for the overall 'survival' of my family to leave.

It up to ME to make it through what's presented to me in the best way I can...and that too is a sliding scale.

...And no...I don't have an RSL...SOME things ya just gotta do for yourself!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

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I received this in my inbox this morning. Interesting perspective and read. Although this is not necessarily my opinion he does have a few good points:

The whole world is watching the horrific and tragic images
coming out of New Orleans for the last week. In one ter-
rifying afternoon nature let us know just how insignificant
all of our efforts are in the face of hurricane forces.

And when the rain stopped, and the wind died, and the
residents of New Orleans picked their heads up and began
to try to figure out how to put their city back together,
nature struck again, destroying the levees that held 500
hundred million gallons of water in check and pouring it
with reckless inevitability from lake and river into the
city.

This was wholesale and irrecoverable destruction. This was
the ultimate test, pitting the worst of nature against the
best of human nature. And when not only the social structure
but the physical structure of civilization was washed away,
the true nobility of man, woman and child was revealed.

As the entire city became flooded people were reduced to
necessary lawlessness, breaking reluctantly into homes,
stores and pharmacies to take only what they needed to
survive in an emergency situation...clothes, gym shoes,
other peoples' personal belongings, electronics, television
sets, jewelry, beer, drugs and, of course, all the firearms
and ammunition they could carry.

But when relief did finally start to make it to New Orleans
the citizens welcomed it with gratitude. As rescue heli-
copters searched the flooded streets for people stranded
on rooftops thankful victims fired guns at them in cele-
bration.

As the first trucks filled with food and medical supplies
for isolated hospitals began to pick their way through
town, heavily armed welcoming committees stopped them in
the streets.

But the greatest example of cooperation, restraint and com-
passion occurred in the Louisiana Superdome, where 16 or
more thousand flood victims found themselves stranded for
several days without sanitation and very little by way of
supplies.

The flood victims distracted themselves by fighting, robbing
and raping each other, starting fires and exploiting each
other via a speedily organized black market.

It is in this spirit that these courageous people hope to
start again. As one man was quoted in an Associated Press
article... "We've been sleeping on the ... ground like rats.
I say burn this whole city down."

Interesting sentiment.

if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

[nate_1979 9]

How funny that all would be, ... if it wasnt true.

FGF #???
I miss the sky...
There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't.

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How funny that all would be, ... if it wasnt true.

Hi nate

Interesting comment

I'm not going to ask you how you know it's true.

Your one interesting dude.

R.I.P.

[StreetScooby 5]

Have you heard what's going on in Baton Rouge? The population there has doubled due to the evacuation. Friends of mine actually made a show of force (with weapons) recently at the Baton Rouge convention center.

We are all engines of karma

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We are currently investigating moving out of the area, in fact we'll likely be gone before too much longer.

Move here
I too have supplies and can last for at least a week, maybe a little longer if I cut my meals in 1/2. Yes, that includes enough food for the dogs.

BTW, did they find that young boy that was missing in your area?

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey

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It would be ok if they were "white" refugees huh ?

Dammit....these people are AMERICANS !!!!!

bozo

it's not a race thing, so please don’t make it into one. ]

You really are very "white" arent you ?
Go ask those people in the Astrodome if it aint racial.
Better yet.....when Algiers gets rebuilt......go spend a month there.....then lets talk about race.
geesusfuck
bozo

bozo
Pain is fleeting. Glory lasts forever. Chicks dig scars.

[airtwardo 7]

did they find that young boy that was missing in your area?


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Yup..they found him yesterday...don't know the details, everyone is being pretty quite about it.

I think we're going to give the North East a try for a while...and who knows, may be moving back to Aurora, Co. in a few!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~