Pirate's Cove

Don’t know about you, but I have had it with the Left-o-sphere. Folks like Kos, America Blog, Huff Post, DU, etc. Folks who can only find condemnation for what happened, starting with, you guessed it, GWB. From what I have seen, most of these folks do not live in hurricane prone areas, and have no clue. Period.

Me, I have never lived through a hurricane that strong personally. But I have been in them. I have personally seen the destruction here in Raleigh and in other areas of North Carolina. The issues facing hurricane ravaged areas are immense. I witnessed similar conditions in Eastern NC after Floyd, where flooding was everywhere. Pineville, Ooops Princeville, NC, was gone. The Greenville Airport was under water. The ground was already saturated from TS Dennis. The water had no where to go. What Can you do to help?

What is facing the Katrina ravaged areas? In so many areas, everything has to be virtually be done by helicopter. People need food and water. But they also need rescuing. They need shelter, and rest room facilities. They need to be taken out of the ravaged areas. You have the looting, which must be addressed. You have fires, which cannot be put out. You have to rebuild the infrastructure, starting with electricity, but the debris and trees, heck, buildings that weren’t there before, have to be moved, demolished, taken away. You have breaks in the levee’s (which the left is blaming Bush for. Why didn’t Slick do anything? Did he do anything to prevent the midwest floods? Hurricanes, and other natural disasters, happen.) You have flooding. You have dangerous waters. You have to rebuild the phone systems. And you have to find the dead. What can you do to help?

People are anxious, they are worried, they are scared. They so often have no idea what is going on. They see only their little slice of the area. What can you do to help?

That is a superficial look, without the details. And there are DETAILS. Without the landline phones, both local and LD, it is difficult to fully get the cell systems on line. And, without electricity, they have to run on gas generators. After Fran, in 1996, we were all worried about getting power back. We didn’t know when it would be back. How to get food if the stores had no power themselves? It was also hot and muggy that mid September. We had no phone service. Yet we did not face being stuck because of flood waters. We did after Floyd. What can you do to help?

You also have to consider that Katrina went all the way up to Canada. We may not be seeing it on TV or in the news, unless you go local, but there is certainly devastation well north of New Orleans. Raleigh is a 2 hour drive from Wilmington. We still got 50-60mph sustained wind, and plenty of damage. What can you do to help?

So, for those who only want to look for fault, people to blame, and petty partisan politics in this time of crisis, you have become irrelevant. You are worthless. While the rest of us come together to help, you look to hurt. I may only be a small blogger in the world, but I consider you worthless, along with your opinions. You aren’t helping.

Meanwhile, do not forget, there are many ways to help out. See my previous post. Let’s do what we can to help.