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Thread #152808   Message #3575071
Posted By: mg
12-Nov-13 - 03:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Philipines catastrophe - Nov 2013 typhoon
Subject: RE: BS: Philipines catastrophe - Nov 2013 typhoon
I do not agree with this...sometimes people are able to get in swiftly to targeted populations..here are thirsty people..here is a boat with water that can reach them. Here is a ton of old Romney t=shirts. These rescuers should be kept out of the way of official agencies etc. but there are so many places that help does not come for days or weeks. This has been so drilled into us that people who could and would collect and deliver water, food, tarps etc. have been effectively demobilized and people have starved and gotten sick and died. There will be people in the way at times and they have to be in martial law and told to take it elsewhere. I fail to see how a teddy bear can hurt and old shoes are quite often better than no shoes. We saw this in Katrina..trucks full of water turned back. S wift boat veterans ready to rescue people blocked. Speed is life and death and some of these agencies are good but not speedy. Probably none of them have enough people and trucks. Let them operate but let others supplement their efforts. That is what I want to have happen when the tsunami comes to where I live. I do not want to wait for the Red Cross..I want fishermen to load up their boats with tarps and milky way bars and come rescue me.