# Hurricaine Victims - RANT

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**Created:** [September 15, 2008, 7:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hurricaine-victims-rant/199617 "2008-09-15T07:34:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 12:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hurricaine-victims-rant/199617/38 "2008-09-16T12:16:48Z")

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> [@Fall Picture Thread 2007](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fall-picture-thread-2007/36195/51):
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> It would be nice if every decision that people had to make were so black and white. However, there are always going to be shades of gray that none of us will understand until we are forced into the situation.
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> I spent weeks in 2004, after the flood, helping the people that live near my cousin. They all lived next to chartier’s creek in Heidelberg. The majority of their houses were considered total loses. So after helping all of these people, who had just lost everything they have ever known, I gained compassion for their situation. I did not care who’s fault it was that they were flooded or where they lived or any of that.
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> I mean Pittspeed even went as far as taking up a collection to help these people. WHY? Was it because Katrina actually hit a little too close to home? We actually knew people effected? If you truly mean what all of you are saying in this thread then you are hypocrites for donating and helping last time.
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> I have a hard time believe all of you are so callous. Some of these people genuinely need our help and all you can say is well too bad, you should not have lived there. Its much easier sitting in the confides of your own home, in Pennsylvania, to say that. Im sure it would be a whole different situation if it was one of you or your family members that had just lost everything.
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> I do not care about the politics of the situation so spare me that. Its about having compassion for your fellow Americans, if not Americans then human beings in general.

kudos! A good friend of mine who is a city fire fighter went down for a month or two and helped out as well.

thats like saying new york should have taken a sick day on 9/11.

i agree with most that their are too many people who dont get up off their lazy asses and fend for themselves instead of demanding help from the gov.

but to say they deserved to die with their home bc they didnt want to leave all they have ever known?

i think thats a harsh statement.

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