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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

I think it is a mindset.  We were talking about this very thing on another 
list.

We had a big fire in the Oakland/Berkeley hills a few years ago.  BIG fire. 
With fires you don't have days to do something.  You have to do it now.  You 
don't wait for the national guard or the state.  The mayors sent out all the 
cops and countie mounties and they did a grid and told folks "you have 15 
minutes to get out or we will move you."  Anyone who didn't have 
transportation was either given a ride by the cops or, if they saw a car 
with room in it, they flagged other folks down and told them to take the 
carless person with them.

And, having lived through a couple of nasty quakes including the one in SF, 
I can tell you we didn't wait for the state or the feds!  Local folks got on 
it immediately.

Same with the oil tanker spill north of Cape Mendocino.  No one waited for 
the feds, the local put out the boats, put out those doohickies that contain 
the spill and took care of it!  Response time for the boats, less than an 
hour!  If we'd waited for the feds we'd probably still be waiting.

Most of the folks I know in WA that live close to Mt. St. Helens have their 
"necessary stuff" organized and ready to go along with a first aid kit in 
their vehicle, blankets, flashlights, water and so forth and so on.

Yup, it is a mindset!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Melody O." <melody AT crecon.com>


> I am starting to believe that the leaders in power are trying to sabotage
> America; I just can't believe that a group of supposed intelligent people
> could really be so common-sense stupid.
>
> As for the two Americas I think it is bunk.  Here in Utah there are a good
> number of poor.  We have many Mexicans, probably many illegal, who are 
> very
> poor, and many white folk who are also poor, but I honestly don't think 
> the
> chaos that is happening in New Orleans would happen here.  I don't think 
> it
> would have happened in rural Kentucky either.  I think what is going on
> with the "poor" in New Orleans doesn't really have to do with being poor 
> at
> all.  I think it has to do with anger and the mindset that someone owes
>
> Best wishes,
> Melody
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