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Off Topic: Tornados Create Midwest Mayhem - Count your Blessings!

Discussion in 'YachtForums Yacht Club' started by CaptTom, May 17, 2011.

  1. CaptTom, May 17, 2011
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    Sometimes you have to see what happens to others (due to no cause of their own) to appreciate what you have. As a disaster manager for my day job, I traveled to Alabama two days after the onslaught of tornadoes that ripped through Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky and other states on April 27. Well, to say that our neighbors in the "Sweet Home" state took it on the chin is an understatement. The following photos were from various towns and communities in AL and MS as my team criss-crossed the states, helping not only our company and employees, but the communities with communications, cell phones, services and more.

    The following is a note I sent to some of my disaster colleagues the third evening I was there. Right after sending out the note, it was announced thet the US got Bin Laden. Needless to say, all the news since then has been about the attack and not nearly enough about the tornado situation. Perhaps our focus gets a bit skewed.

    Some days you just have to count your blessings.

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  2. CaptTom, May 17, 2011
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  3. CaptTom, May 17, 2011
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  4. JWY, May 18, 2011
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  5. Laurence, May 18, 2011
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    Tornado damage

    Here's a few photos from damage at Alreds marina on Lake Guntersville, Alabama. Fortunately (or not), my boat was at the boatyard up river.

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  6. NYCAP123, May 18, 2011
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    That disaster is now being followed by almost unprecedented flooding along the Mississippi and a record drought in Texas. My big question is, Where are the disaster relief teams and the donations from the nations we've helped?
  7. Old Phart, May 18, 2011
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    You're a funny guy! :D
  8. GFC, May 19, 2011
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    They're sitting in their vaults looking a lot like Scrooge McDuck...

    [​IMG]

    and laughing their butts off over our misery.
  9. revdcs, May 19, 2011
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    Not fair! Most of the nations which the US, the UK and other wealthy countries have helped through disaster over the past thirty years, are still in financial trouble as a result of what they have suffered.

    You are also forgetting the hundreds of thousands of private individuals as well as hard pressed charities who are giving what they can.

    Yes, some despotic nations have taken advantage of 'debt relief' and there will always be those who will enrich themselves through free handouts which are destined for others, even in the USA. But to make the blanket statement that those who have suffered disaster have profited from it and do not care when the same thing happens to others, is wrong.
  10. NYCAP123, May 19, 2011
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    I haven't forgotten anyone. I haven't heard of them in the first place to forget. What charities are taking up collections for the victims of the Missippippi floods and the tornados? Who are sending checks so our poor that are living on the streets and in shelters can get the help they need? Does the world even know or care about the people who are living in our subway tunnels and off the sides of our highways in the woods? Does this stuff even make the newspapers in other areas of the world? As we cut our social programs does anybody recognize that as anything but a budget issue? Ever hear of a mashed potatoe sandwich? They're made with powdered potatoes, and a lot of kids have them 3 meals a day. They were invented in the U.S.
  11. K1W1, May 19, 2011
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    Israel, Iran.Iraq are the names of a few

    Not till I read your post and googled it, I like mash and think I will try one now I have read this.

    Not according to this guy: http://jamesmcintosh.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/mashed-potato-sandwiches/
  12. NYCAP123, May 19, 2011
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    The SSM is the American version. Add a little ketsup fron McD's, and it's pretty good...at least for the first few days. It fills you up too, although there's not much nutritional value. A little extra water makes two meals from one. Enjoy.