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Damn, wrong again.
posted by
johnmacnab
on September 15, 2008 at 4:58 AM
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Funny post, and useful, too. Esp. the tip about getting your papers
together, prescriptions too.... Thanks for your comment "I hate nutritionists." I needed that laugh! :)pat
posted by
Pat_B
on September 14, 2008 at 3:42 AM
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johnmcnabb, that was Japanese succor.
posted by
majroj
on September 10, 2008 at 11:38 AM
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majroj
Again, a very sensible, matter of fact post written with humour - there aren't many of us left, majroj. The only time I ate succor it tasted more like octopus than chicken!
posted by
johnmacnab
on September 9, 2008 at 5:03 PM
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Uh oh and here comes Olaf or Otis or whoever.....no rest.
posted by
benzinha
on September 7, 2008 at 1:35 AM
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maj, looks like Baton Rouge got beaten up again, poor things.
posted by
benzinha
on September 2, 2008 at 4:39 PM
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Re: Good substantial advice, Majroj!
Ciel, the entry into and working within a disaster zone is actually much more regimented than you think once the suits have arrived. The spontaneous" part is immediately after, then in areas where formal response and law enforcement/Guard have not yet arrived.
posted by
majroj
on September 2, 2008 at 5:28 AM
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Re: maj, my Arizona daughter recently relocated to Ft. Lauderdale, FLA.
Yeah, microbursts are not much fun at all. We had our 11 y/o Calif niece in Nebraska for a week and got caught in one in our car.
posted by
majroj
on September 2, 2008 at 5:26 AM
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Good substantial advice, Majroj!
The impulse to help really does need to be tempered with common sense-- and then there are the details we tend not to think of until it's too late. Thanks for supplying a good list of preparations to make before going off to be a Good Person!
posted by
Ciel
on September 1, 2008 at 9:41 AM
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maj, my Arizona daughter recently relocated to Ft. Lauderdale, FLA.
just sent me an email about schools closing and things like that. Then she wrote, , Jeez, these people really take this stuff seriously around here !!! As tho' they were just chickens....or something. Dunno, but she has never experienced anything like that in Arizona and is fairly casual about her preparations for hurricanes.
"Everyone was grabbing all the water from the stores and shelves and I went home just shaking my head." She didn't buy any of that water. Just wait, she will change her mind if she stays any time there, newcomers learn the hard way.
Thanks for you advice to idiots here....I 'spect that many will go if it happens again in NO, as I pray not.....
We are having uncharacteristic micro bursts that are tearing things up. Threw my brother's neighbor's front portico into his pool, broke all his 100 year old old glass windows and split a three inch thick mahogany door right down the middle.
That was PHX 2 days ago downtown...then my son't sneighborhood outside of Tucson had one and a school was wrecked and his tree was uprooted and a neighbor's roof tiles thrown all over the neighborhood like deadly missles.
Wild new weather. We have had a rainy season since June and we are amazed.
Nite....
posted by
benzinha
on August 31, 2008 at 8:55 PM
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