On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Kristin A. Ruhle wrote:
> One more thing. I hate to say this because it is really going to sound
> uncharitable. but am having a rather hard time feeling sorry for
> people in Houston after the "freak" hurricane. Global warming could
> result in these things happening more often. You reap what you sow
> dammit. How many hurricanes till gou guys admit global warming is
> real?
Thank you for admitting that you're being uncharitable, for starters.
Many of the people who have the attitude of "they got what they deserve"
in relation to the California energy situation will not admit that they're
being uncharitable.
Allison was not a hurricaine, but a tropical storm, and it *was* a "freak"
-- how many storms of this type do a 180 and dump more rain on the same
area they dumped rain on when they made landfall?
But what really bothers me about your attitude is that you're being
extremely cavalier about an event in which people died. How would you
like it if there were a major earthquake today and you couldn't reach your
parents for several days, but you were hearing reports of deaths? I had a
friend call me about something totally unrelated, but she ended up talking
about the storm and the fact that she couldn't reach her parents, and she
was extremely worried about them. Can you put yourself in her shoes? This
is someone who is careful about her energy consumption and who has
expressed some radical (for Texas, anyway) ideas about how to get people
to cut back -- can you blame *her* for the storm? Can you blame the
people who died in Houston for that storm?
Julia
who has relatives whose house flooded, and who is worried some about them
now
