Posted On: June 1, 2006, 1:52 pm CDT

Posted By: Lisa

Did you guys realize that there is a higher strike probability for New York this season than there is for the gulf states? That would be terrible but they have predicted that there is a higher strike probability along the eastern coast than in the gulf.
As far as rebuilding New Orleans, I am on the same page as a lot of people here in Louisiana. We don't see the point of rebuilding parts of New Orleans only to have it possible washed away again. Now that is not my home so I can't speak for those who live there. I am sure that there hearts live there as mine lives here. So, it is up to them, the state of La. and the feds to decide how and what to do.
Now we face another season of what is predicted to be many years of strong hurricanes. Do I pack my family up, quit my job, try to sell my house and high tale it out of town??? No! At least not unless my part of Louisiana becomes unlivable due to a natural or unatural disaster. Are we prepared to evacuate and maintain ourselves without any help? You bet we are! We found out the hard way that you only have yourself to rely upon during times of disaster for at least a period of time.
So for you in New York and IA, get off you high horses. When the time comes when you need help from a natural or unatural disaster, will you be prepared? Would you like the help from your government? Your insurance companies? Your fellow man? That is all you need to be concerned about. Quit dumping on the gulf states for just living there and having been in a disaster. We don't say that of people who live in Indonesia and Pakistan when horrors have stuck them? Imagine us saying, "Well, they just should not have lived there!" What a stupid, insensitive thing that would be to say or think! Or what if we said, "No, we are not going to help those poor people who just everything they had because that should have none better than to live there! Why should we have to pay to help them...geez...I mean I don't live there!" People who say these things are people who are self-centered, uncompassionate, ignorant people who I hope live to see just a fraction of what what it feels like to struggle through what we in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama suffered and still suffer through! People, your fellow Americans, don't deserve such hateful responses...they have suffered enough.