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What Are They Thinking --- Or Not Thinking

12 years ago

I cannot for the life of me understand what possesses people to go for walks/runs/take photos during a hurricane. You're advised to stay indoors and yet these folks get their pictures taken grinning like the cat that ate the canary.

We had two young men go walking after being out with friends and wound up dead. What's worse is its not just young folks, but older folks too.

I guess they don't have their thinking caps on very straight.

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sleeperblues
12 years ago
I saw where several people were swept off a pier watching the waves come in. No, doesn't seem too smart. Nature is a powerful force.
azzalea
12 years ago
And what about the idiot surfer's who go out in the ocean?
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dotmom
12 years ago
Please.....Don't underestimate Mother Nature.
joann23456
12 years ago
Oh, my, I sure understand! I used to go out walking on the beach during storms when I was younger. It was so exciting! I was careful and never came close to getting hurt.

I stopped because I didn't want to endanger anyone else who might try to help me if I did end up getting hurt.

Now, I watch storms from my front porch. Not as exciting, but more responsible.
cynic
12 years ago
Just thinning out the herd a bit.
chisue
12 years ago
DH and I lived in a apartment while our house was being completed. We saw a neighbor climb onto a second story roof *to adjust his television dish* in 60 MPH winds during a tornado watch.

DH's cousin said he watched a tornado through his picture window...until he felt a pressure change and decided to watch his basement walls instead.
marie_ndcal
12 years ago
Back here in the Midwest it is attitude for the older people. We are still recovering from the flood in Minot, and the older people that had to be rescued, said we have seen worst (hundred years ago), or back in yearxxx it was clear up to. Same during blizzards with older people --They just don't think or realize that there body's are a bit older and out of shape.
(and brains too)
Signed
A Senior person ( I think)
moonie_57 (8 NC)
12 years ago
azzalea - we had a surfer killed here while surfing Irene. Truly sad.
joyfulguy
12 years ago
Like cynic said - thinning out the herd a bit.

It was only a few hundred years ago that the population of the world was a billion ...

... then a century or so ago it grew to 2 billion ...

... and now it's over 6 billion, going on 7.

And thay say that it's to be over 10 billion within a century or so.

Poor old world is getting pretty overloaded, if you ask me.

Think that it might fall out of orbit?

ole joyful
OklaMoni
12 years ago
Way to go cynic, I didn't have the guts to post what you did, but I did think it.

I was thinking cleaning up in the gene pool.

Moni

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