Let's get high.

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"Gatt" wrote:

1,000 ft. over Dauphin Island.

How did Ft. Gaines handle Katrina?

Came through ok. The west end of the island really got hammered, though.
Lots of beach homes lost and a new pass cut through to Mississippi Sound.

Thanks. I visited New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast in February,
and have this to say:

If America as a whole is ever hit with a disaster as heavily as Katrina hit
the gulf coast states, I hope that we as a nation are able to endure and
rebuild with the tenacity, resiliance and determination that I saw from the
people in Gulfport, Biloxi, etc. Talk about a stiff upper lip; southerners
are some tough f'ing people!

-c

"Gatt" wrote:

If America as a whole is ever hit with a disaster as heavily as Katrina hit
the gulf coast states, I hope that we as a nation are able to endure and
rebuild with the tenacity, resiliance and determination that I saw from the
people in Gulfport, Biloxi, etc. Talk about a stiff upper lip; southerners
are some tough f'ing people!

I think Americans everywhere are tougher than they realize.


--
Dan
T-182T at BFM

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 18:02:45 -0500, "Dan Luke"
wrote:

I think Americans everywhere are tougher than they realize.

So do I.

We bitch, we moan...

But when Katrina, 9/11, Andrew, the NYC blackouts, name a disaster...
hit, people step up and suck it up. I wasn't there for Katrina, but I
was there for 9/11, and I saw it with my own eyes.

Sometimes, I think our comfortable lifestyle, as well as our ability
and freedom to bitch and moan is taken as softness. Try to take it
away...

Look at the people who simply show up unorganized from 100's of miles
away to help at a disaster like Katrina and 9/11.

"B A R R Y" wrote in message
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I think Americans everywhere are tougher than they realize.

Look at the people who simply show up unorganized from 100's of miles
away to help at a disaster like Katrina and 9/11.

Motivational stuff, guys, and I hope it's true.

My cousin who lives in Gulfport (refuses to leave because she works with
animals there) said that the first responders after Katrina were the good
ol' rebel flag types from upstate who came down in pickup trucks loaded with
food, water, shovels, etc. Then she had a knock on her door; it was a
National Guard humvee distributing MREs, more or less without official
orders. Like the heroes of New Orleans--the US Coast Guard helicopter
crews--they didn't waste time waiting for the bureaucracy to give them
permission to mobilize. There's glory in that.

-c

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 18:07:47 -0700, "Gatt"
wrote:


Motivational stuff, guys, and I hope it's true.

I SAW IT MYSELF on 9/12 in Fairfield County, CT.

Folks were showing up at organizational areas along I-95 in CT and NY
asking "what can I do?" I'm sure the same happened down south, after
Katrina.

The USCG has a long history of dumping bureaucracy and getting it
done.