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Golf1echo · 08-26-2017, 16:53

Pete that is a great point, with more folks living pay check to paycheck these days there are most likely many in the situation you refere to.

To elaborate on the situation I mentioned, my friend is a very capable, eperienced and a hard man who did have resources. Katrina was a much bigger event than many expected, he was able to endure the initial landfall but found the aftermath of the event and environment untenable for him and his family...weeks of not having power, access to fuel and supplies as well as the opportunists that began looting. His friend came in from FL with a truck filled with fuel and supplies...mostly fuel so they could get back out again when roadways were cleared...many weeks later. What he mentioned of his experience made me understand why they just moved on afterwards and that there can be many more unforeseen issues after the larger events then are worth dealing with...

Edit: All one has to do is look at the images of the aftermath and you can begin to understand.

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Golf1echo Area Commander Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Western Carolina in the rainforest,4000' along the Eastern Cont. Div. Posts: 1,427	Pete that is a great point, with more folks living pay check to paycheck these days there are most likely many in the situation you refere to. To elaborate on the situation I mentioned, my friend is a very capable, eperienced and a hard man who did have resources. Katrina was a much bigger event than many expected, he was able to endure the initial landfall but found the aftermath of the event and environment untenable for him and his family...weeks of not having power, access to fuel and supplies as well as the opportunists that began looting. His friend came in from FL with a truck filled with fuel and supplies...mostly fuel so they could get back out again when roadways were cleared...many weeks later. What he mentioned of his experience made me understand why they just moved on afterwards and that there can be many more unforeseen issues after the larger events then are worth dealing with... Edit: All one has to do is look at the images of the aftermath and you can begin to understand. __________________ "It is because they have so much to give and give it so lavishly...that men love the mountains and go back to them again and again." Sir Francis Younghusband Essayons By Dand "In the school of the wilds,there is no graduation day"Horace Kephart Last edited by Golf1echo; 08-26-2017 at 17:02.
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