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Originally posted by sugar and spice
(You can say that if you were there, you'd be helping those people as much as you could. Maybe that's true. But IMO, if you felt that strongly about the situation, you'd be down there helping them NOW -- you wouldn't be sitting at your computers typing away about how nobody's helping them. Why aren't you down there? You've got a job to do, you've got commitments, you've got other priorities. So do they. They aren't any more heartless than the rest of us.)
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Sorry buddy, I dont' usually disagree with you but I do here.
First, these reporters are in the direct area, the rest of us are not. We are thousands of miles away (But for the record a few people I work with have contemplated going to the area to help out on our employer's dollar and I'm willing to do it, I'll put my money where my mouth is). For anyone that is wondering, I also donated my last quarterly bonus to a charitable foundation for this relief effort. Yes, it was a few grand.
I'd also just like to mention that there are probably many many people across the country that would give anything they could to be there. So why don't they go? It would be total chaos if we had thousands upon thousands of volunteers trying to get to the area. It would hamper the efforts of getting the people of the area out via air, land and/or water. You can't fly into the direct area, many of the areas where some reports are coming from still can't be reached by air and/or land. And it would also be chaotic because there would be all kinds of volunteers with no type of organization. It would be a traveling nightmare. Right now the area needs as much open road and open transportation as possible.