09-04-2005, 05:03 AM
I hear what you are saying there, the city of detroit is sitting over top salt mines that are hundreds of feet deap.
you know one day those hallowed grounds are going to give way.
what provisions do whe have available should something happen? one oakland county food bank that generates food out to spicific locations once a month. they could not handle any kind of minimal crises. as a matter of fact they are crying quite offten about not having what they need to meet the needs of the existing poor and unemployed redsidents.
I was a president of an orginization that saw to taking care of 100 families three times a year during the holidays.
in my area the power went out for two weeks a few weeks back a few years ago after several tornados came though. people lost all their parishables, had no water to drink, there were no privisions of any kind for aid. no dry ice, no bottled gass. homes with natural gass hook ups could still cook but every one esle had to figure out a way for them selves.
I took my gas grill and charcoal grill along with the contents of my freezer over to my center where I set up and fed several families for those days till power was restored. we took a generator to run the center freezer and lights and nothing else.
granted it wasnt such a big deal except for the families in my area who could not drive out to pick up basics like cooked meals and water.
I spent a whole hog and a side of beaf out of my pocket or should I say freezer, I would have lost it all any ways so why not....
I was not refunded for my loss couldnt write it off I didnt get the incentives that corprate america gets when they loose a percentage. where was my tax break? "sorry cheep punch" I just dont understand why they keep giving money back to the rich when we have not prepaired for even the moderate of disasters....
I truly wish some one would explain it to me....
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you know one day those hallowed grounds are going to give way.
what provisions do whe have available should something happen? one oakland county food bank that generates food out to spicific locations once a month. they could not handle any kind of minimal crises. as a matter of fact they are crying quite offten about not having what they need to meet the needs of the existing poor and unemployed redsidents.
I was a president of an orginization that saw to taking care of 100 families three times a year during the holidays.
in my area the power went out for two weeks a few weeks back a few years ago after several tornados came though. people lost all their parishables, had no water to drink, there were no privisions of any kind for aid. no dry ice, no bottled gass. homes with natural gass hook ups could still cook but every one esle had to figure out a way for them selves.
I took my gas grill and charcoal grill along with the contents of my freezer over to my center where I set up and fed several families for those days till power was restored. we took a generator to run the center freezer and lights and nothing else.
granted it wasnt such a big deal except for the families in my area who could not drive out to pick up basics like cooked meals and water.
I spent a whole hog and a side of beaf out of my pocket or should I say freezer, I would have lost it all any ways so why not....
I was not refunded for my loss couldnt write it off I didnt get the incentives that corprate america gets when they loose a percentage. where was my tax break? "sorry cheep punch" I just dont understand why they keep giving money back to the rich when we have not prepaired for even the moderate of disasters....
I truly wish some one would explain it to me....
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