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Post by cowgirlup on Nov 4, 2012 6:42:06 GMT -7
I'm from MS and had family and friends on the coast during katrina. I think some of the perception of how people respond to a disaster is manipulated a lot by the media. They have a tendency to focus on the bad stuff because its more "exciting" and makes "better news". you heard very little about how the communites on the MS gulf coast came together and have worked at rebuilding for the past 7years, making it better than it was before. You have good responses and bad responses in any situation, it all depends on the type of people that are involved, the best can come out of people and the worst also. . There is probably a lot of truth in that. I see how the media picks and chooses what it wants to report on any big news story. I've heard there is a lot of looting and robbery in NYC and NJ right now but you don't hear about it in the news. |
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Post by missasip on Nov 4, 2012 8:37:52 GMT -7
Well this has been interesting. Lots of thought processes and good ones too. I see the same thing happening as happens in every disaster we have. We have folks that did virtually no advanced planning of any sort and some that did. Happens all the time. As you might know, haven't seen anything on anyone who was prepared a bit more. Hmmm wonder why?  This scenario will never change. You will have the ignorant, the not so ignorant and you will have the prepared. That is the way it has been through the millenniums and I doubt it will ever change. It takes a slight bit of paranoid to do what we do, JMWAG. If it's starting to get this bad in this short of time in a short term SHTF, what do we expect in a long term SHTF. I feel like we have just barely touched on how bad it may get in a national emergency. So we just keep plugging away and hoping for the best. I just think the best will not be all that good. Jimmy |
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Post by missasip on Nov 4, 2012 8:52:26 GMT -7
That was a transformer/breaker yard outside of a power plant. A transformer or large breaker having some major track over in the beginning (water coming up the side of it) and then the actual explosion of the unit itself once a ground fault actual took place. The second one was the same. That will be some very expensive and if a large step-up transformer a very long term repair. Not only will the main part be damaged but the buss works and structures that hold all the stuff together. If you noticed though, it appeared they only lost station service as the power stayed on. A salute to their grid. Switching is automatic and sometimes blink free. Jimmy |
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Post by pathwinder14 on Nov 5, 2012 9:31:17 GMT -7
And just once I'd like to see some reporter ask one of the complainers and criticizers just why they didn't follw evacuation orders or have the 10 days of food and water that most people in NJ were told to have. I would really like to know I think the reporter would get mugged for asking.  |
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Post by WILL on Nov 6, 2012 3:59:23 GMT -7
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Post by cowgirlup on Nov 6, 2012 6:12:50 GMT -7
And just once I'd like to see some reporter ask one of the complainers and criticizers just why they didn't follw evacuation orders or have the 10 days of food and water that most people in NJ were told to have. I would really like to know I think the reporter would get mugged for asking. Yeah,but the moment of stunned silence and look on their faces while there were all in shock would be such a great thing to see. That will give the reporter a head start to run for the news van, which probably has gas so they should get away safe. ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2012 8:34:51 GMT -7
I think the reporter would get mugged for asking. Yeah,but the moment of stunned silence and look on their faces while there were all in shock would be such a great thing to see. That will give the reporter a head start to run for the news van, which probably has gas so they should get away safe. ;D I love the way you think! LOL!! |
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