I was cryin' the blues yesterday because my team lost and then I saw some video of the flooding in Colorado. Nothing like a natural disaster to put things into perspective. After seeing that it was really easy to get over my unhappiness. By now everyone has seen at least a little of what is happening there, have you ever experienced anything similar?
I've never been through anything like that. Or seen it up close. It really does make you think about how much worse things could be.
One headline I saw said 700 missing, I sure hope thats not accurate
I think that those who have had no contact with others are being considered missing. I wouldn't chalk all 700 up to deaths. That's what I'm hoping anyway.
It sure would be a good way to get out of debt by disapearing. You just need someone to say the last they saw of you you were getting carried away.
(09-16-2013, 09:33 AM)Maggot Wrote: [ -> ]It sure would be a good way to get out of debt by disapearing.
I think that may have happened after 9/11. I have a vague memory of reading something to that affect in the last few years.
Used to work for a large entity involved in disaster response... seeing that shit up close puts a whole new perspective on it.
What you see in the media doesn't even scratch the surface of how devastating these events are physically and psychologically.
(09-16-2013, 10:19 AM)Jimbone Wrote: [ -> ]Used to work for a large entity involved in disaster response... seeing that shit up close puts a whole new perspective on it.
What you see in the media doesn't even scratch the surface of how devastating these events are physically and psychologically.
Of that I am sure.
I met a guy who led the team responsible for identifying bodies after the boxing day tsunami. That guy's psyche was threadbare. They shipped in hundreds and hundreds of refrigerated shipping containers to store bodies until they could be identified. It took them months. A couple of hundred thousand people is a lot of death to be around for that amount of time.
6 weeks ago, my county got 11 inches of rain in 4 hrs. We just had some major bridges reopen this past week. That was bad enough. I work in insurance and spent 3 days answering the phone to tell 99% of people that their homes flooding was not covered because we haven't had this kind of flooding since 1941.
I can't image the devastation Colorado is experiencing.
Many homeowners are not aware that flood insurance has to be purchased seperately from their homeowners. .