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Tue Aug-30-05 02:25 PM
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One thing that I keep seeing and I don't understand |
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I keep seeing people being rescued without shoes on! Geez...I've lived in tornado alley for years and everytime we have a warning--that is part of the drill. Everyone puts shoes and clothes on--no matter what time of day or night. If you get displaced from your stuff--you at least have that. How sad.:(
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Tue Aug-30-05 02:27 PM
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1. maybe they lost their shoes wading around in the water? nt |
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Tue Aug-30-05 03:02 PM
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12. maybe they didn't have any shoes. n/t |
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Tue Aug-30-05 02:28 PM
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2. That pretty much goes for any disaster. Here in CA we are told to |
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keep a pair of shoes by the bed in case of an earthquake. During one, a guy went running through his house for the front door and his feet were a bloody mess by the time he reached the door.
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Tue Aug-30-05 02:29 PM
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3. It is much easer to walk in water without shoes so they probably |
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Tue Aug-30-05 02:32 PM
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6. Crap! The worse thing you can do in flood waters is go barefoot! |
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It isn't that you don't know what's under the water - you know exactly what probably IS under there!
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Tue Aug-30-05 02:35 PM
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8. I said it was easier - is that crap ? |
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Edited on Tue Aug-30-05 02:36 PM by DURHAM D
And, why are you soooo angry ?
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Tue Aug-30-05 03:32 PM
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15. Sorry, it must have come out angry, unintentionally - I promise. |
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I was just exclaiming because I was once in a flooded area - barefoot - and I cut my feet to ribbons; it was not a pretty sight! Sorry if I came off belligerent - it was not my intent. :hi:
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Tue Aug-30-05 02:30 PM
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4. bah hahahah, i have only lived in tornado alley for over a decade |
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Edited on Tue Aug-30-05 02:31 PM by seabeyond
i never put on shoes and clothes, nor do i make the kids. duh, to me. lol. how stupid of me. we run to basement, back closet, have a foam mattress pillows and blankies, but never, girl, never thought of thos damn shoes, lol lol. oh bad me
will have to do in future. thanks
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Tue Aug-30-05 02:31 PM
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5. I didn't either. Husband pointed it out. |
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And I think I know EVERYTHING.
lol
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Tue Aug-30-05 02:48 PM
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10. oh well, see...... difference between you and me, lol |
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i KNOW i dont know EVerYthINg. lol.
that is funny elehhhhhna. hubby going to get in trouble. really this is his department. he failed me. wink
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Tue Aug-30-05 02:48 PM
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9. I used to have some helmets to put on the kids too. |
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Tue Aug-30-05 02:33 PM
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7. They could have been wearing sandals or |
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flip flops. I have seen that happen a lot in hurricanes I have lived through. People wear sandals and somewhere along the line they lose one or both. A lot of people don't want to wear shoes because they don't want wet shoes/wet feet. So they just wear sandals.
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Tue Aug-30-05 02:54 PM
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11. One sliced and infected foot, |
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and they'll put shoes on right quick.
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Tue Aug-30-05 03:11 PM
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13. To get to roofs, shoes probably got soaked. |
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Edited on Tue Aug-30-05 03:12 PM by Ready4Change
Once on the roof they took the shoes off to dry out during the hours spent just sitting around.
When a copter or boat shows up, in the excitement, they forget shoes.
That's my guess.
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Tue Aug-30-05 03:15 PM
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14. CNN said that the water came in so fast they didn't |
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have time to put their shoes on. I think the directions to put your shoes and clothes on at the start of a weather event is the best advice I've seen. A lot of these people were hanging out and then the water came in and they barely had time to get upstairs before their homes were flooded.
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Tue Aug-30-05 03:34 PM
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16. WDSU reported the same thing |
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The storm surge caused water to rise so fast people hardly had time to get to safety.
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