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Bear71, y'all safe? Super Typhoon Hagupit strikes Philippines
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I'm praying y'all are safe. I've been through a lot of hurricanes in south Louisianna and south Florida. I've seen first hand the devastation.
Yep, I've been in constant contact with my family. What gave me relief kind of messed up Bear. The storm dropped in power big time, all the way down to a category 1 as it pushed further north. Unfortunately that put it going right through Bear's island. Originally it was going to cut right through my town but it pushed far enough north that my family only lost power for 5 hours.
Where were you in South Louisiana? I'm originally from Jennings but have lived all over down there.
One thing most people don't stop and consider is the difference in infrastructure. In the US by the end of the day there will be government there handing out food and water and there will be proper shelters for people that have lost their homes to go to. According to the latest study, only about 10% of the evacuation centers in Philippines will handle a Category 4 or 5 Hurricane/Typhoon and government assistance is nonexistent if you don't live in a large city. After Yolanda it was the people who were clearing the roads outside of the cities and we were still delivering supplies a month later, a week ahead of the government. Some areas it took the government 2 months to show up. Of course the people are for more self sufficient there as opposed to the US. We also have things like building codes in the US that are strictly enforced. At the end of the day it's hard to force someone to build properly when they are only making $100 - $300 a month. One of the things that nobody considers though is that when something like this strikes the US we lace up our boots, literally, so that we can move around outside. Most locals are forced to walk around the debris, to recover the bodies of their own family members, in nothing more than worn out flip flops.
The CNN link really shows the complete devastation of Yolanda/Haiyan. While the government claims that only 15,000 people died everyone else claims 2 - 3x that number. The government arrived at that number by counting the registered voters in each community. When you are sitting here worrying about your family these are the only scenes that play through your mind.
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2013/11/12/ac-anderson-overview.cnn.html
[video=youtube;4xabd4Dkkw4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xabd4Dkkw4[/video]
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Knowing that my families life may very well rest on me being prepared is why I am so anal about getting a SS knife of an appropriate size. O1 is a wonderful steel for most of North America but deteriorates quickly when you are in an environment that is covered in salt water, corrosives (leaking car batteries, industrial runoff that is pushed into homes, and all the other little things), and is constantly wet.
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Yes, we do have better infrastructure...but help isn't always there by the end of the day. There was a delayed reaction to katrina, and even then some towns in Alabama were being ignored. A friend here had family in south Alabama, and we collected donations in one of his dump trucks and he made four trips down before the government stepped in there in those areas.
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I can't speak to Alabama but I can say that I was there, with the government, securing supply drops and distributing supplies within 12 hours of Katrina hitting. I know many news crews didn't report it and many people don't like to believe it but I know it to be true.
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Oh, I personally know there were some people there quicker than reported, I know some of them personally. Even helped load supplies in their trucks here, and helped acquire resources for some refugees that were relocated to here. But looking at how they handled Katrina and then seeing what went on in some other towns, and the way the media played it... it sort of came off more like a photo op... The media didn't seem to want to cover the whole story, and the imagination is usually worse than the reality...
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Yes. I was raised in Rayne Louisianna. I wasn't there for Katrina though. Jennings. Small world.
Any news yet? My family was lucky minor impact only. Thank God that storm weakened before and after making landfall.
Funny how Phil Govt only counts registered voters in casualty tolls and only maybe 1 in 5 people are registered.
It was months before they even visited some provincial towns last year. Bodies buried and huts already rebuilt- so they said "little to no impact" !!!
Bill
Funny how Phil Govt only counts registered voters in casualty tolls and only maybe 1 in 5 people are registered.
It was months before they even visited some provincial towns last year. Bodies buried and huts already rebuilt- so they said "little to no impact" !!!
Bill