All this hurricane and Katrina talk has me thinking about a post made by an ignorant little Florida girl a while back. It was called “Hurricanes, Florida Style” and though I already retorted I saw something a week or so ago that made me think of it again.
You said a lot of ignorant things in that post but when you said…
We get hurricane warnings constantly. Most of the time, I yawn. And honestly, if it’s a Category 1 or 2, it’s a non-event… unless, of course, you are a surfer, in which case you can be counted upon to be at the beach trying to take advantage of the good waves, all the way up to a Category 4, when police have to be there to forcibly keep them away.
I knew it didn’t say much for you or the surfers. Then when I saw this…
I thought of you and the surfers. And Fay was just an itty bitty tropical storm.
ok, i just read aaaaaalllll that back story, and other than being painfully biased against louisiana, i can’t figure out what’s so “ignorant” about her post. i don’t think she’s saying that ALL hurricanes aren’t so bad, i think she’s just extolling in a not-so-articulate way, that living with hurricane fear is not so bad, and that for all of the media coverage about the death and doom, the vast majority of affected people are kicking back with beer and waiting for the inconvenience to be over. i never left for a storm in my life until special k, so i understand what it’s like to spend most hurricane seasons bored with the hype.
ps: if surfers wanna go out in a hurricane and earn themselves a darwin award then that’s fine by me. just don’t ask the emergency crews to come out there and get your clueless corpse.
It’s all in my retort so I’ll just sum up here:
– She employs the oft-repeated falsehood that only New Orleans received federal aid after storms. A giant fallacy that folks like to employ and never explore because they are happy in their assertion and don’t want it challenged.
– She employs the oft-repeated falsehood that only New Orleans is struggling with recovery. All over Florida there are neighborhoods that haven’t come back. My parents live in one.
– She refers to Category 3 storms as “pretty boring” when both Katrina and Ivan came ashore as Cat 3’s and killed people, destroyed homes, ruined lives. Both these storms came ashore recently, and even though she wasn’t paying attention, it wouldn’t have taken a very long search to figure that out but she chose to proceed with her words without looking it up. Sounds like ignorance to me.
– She doesn’t seem to be alluding to media hype in this post. I know it’s something both you and I are on about but I have a suspicion that she’s coming at it from a different POV.
– Lots of people used to have Hurricane parties. Probably some of those ended up on roofs.
– She lives in Jacksonville which hasn’t been hit my a major storm in many years. Yet, she cites being struck by significantly weakened Frances and Jeanne as her frame of reference.
– I could go on and on but it was all said in the retort.
I do know where you are coming from with this though. You are only defending her because she poses with a gun on her blog and makes gun owners look bad! You should be over at her blog telling your sister in the Artillery Sorority to STFU rather than here at mine trying to defend her!
‘Cause she’s certainly ignorant without the quotes!
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Hahaha! I am SO not defending the sisterhood of the traveling handguns. That chick does need a righteous ass kicking by a *real* hurricane though. However, I don’t think everything she says is without credit. Most of America thinks we get too much aid because 1) we get too much aid that goes to waste, and 2) we whine louder than anyone that we don’t get aid. All you’re proving with your “Florida hasn’t come back” examples is that government aid just makes things worse. All I want is my damn levees, they can keep the rest 🙂
Yes! We should secede! I will summon the militias and let them know the chair is against the wall. Also, John has a long mustache.