Ever seen a real hurricane? You can prepare for the worse and still under estimate mother nature by light years. I am from the Gulf of Mexico, USA. The state of 'confusion', or more accurately, 'mind', that the locals were in was changing by the minute. Along the Gulf coast, hurricane Frederick came right through my front yard in 1979. There was nothing left. Every car, tree and power line was destroyed. No power at the relatives house whom we were lucky enough to have for 3 weeks. Not one of us, poor and many as we were, decided to loot for food or anything else. We were descendents of generations of people living in this region and we had food rations to last us. Not one of my extended family members, then over 300, decided to steal, assault or harm anyone else in panic or under the guise of such a state. We did not panic in our state of sadness. We organized and survived. Jimmy Carter had nothing to do with our survival. Nor did he have anything to do with the damage brought by the storm. No one from FEMA was fired. The president wasn't accused of using some hurricane machine and aiming it at minorities. The storm came and went, we lived through it. End of story. Maybe if the members of our society would realize that mixing isolated facts with lots of speculation and humor against a world leader, is an attempt to get rich instead of reveal the truth. All this done by someone who has the same education as the teenager that made his special piping hot diuretic at Starbucks this morning. Maybe when his stomach gets upset from all the frappuccinos one self righteous idiot can suck down, he'll once again find a way to blame someone else.
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Ever seen a real hurricane? You can prepare for the worse and still under estimate mother nature by light years. I am from the Gulf of Mexico, USA. The state of 'confusion', or more accurately, 'mind', that the locals were in was changing by the minute. Along the Gulf coast, hurricane Frederick came right through my front yard in 1979. There was nothing left. Every car, tree and power line was destroyed. No power at the relatives house whom we were lucky enough to have for 3 weeks. Not one of us, poor and many as we were, decided to loot for food or anything else. We were descendents of generations of people living in this region and we had food rations to last us. Not one of my extended family members, then over 300, decided to steal, assault or harm anyone else in panic or under the guise of such a state. We did not panic in our state of sadness. We organized and survived. Jimmy Carter had nothing to do with our survival. Nor did he have anything to do with the damage brought by the storm. No one from FEMA was fired. The president wasn't accused of using some hurricane machine and aiming it at minorities. The storm came and went, we lived through it. End of story. Maybe if the members of our society would realize that mixing isolated facts with lots of speculation and humor against a world leader, is an attempt to get rich instead of reveal the truth. All this done by someone who has the same education as the teenager that made his special piping hot diuretic at Starbucks this morning. Maybe when his stomach gets upset from all the frappuccinos one self righteous idiot can suck down, he'll once again find a way to blame someone else.