I have to add my two cents about the comment of this individual.
“If ya don’t get food and water to people they will go survival mode and and start looking@ for it .”
Which begs one question: Were these people in a coma since April 1st? One thing Florida does regularly on that date is to remind and hammer on people that hurricane season is coming and to start preparing. You cannot walk into a supermarket or mega store without seeing stacks of pamphlets on hurricane preparedness. They all include different variations of the same list which begin with the amounts of food and water you should keep during hurricane season! And different versions of the same checklist will be seen on TV and heard on the radio and websites (Including this humble blog) would publish them.
I still remember Governor Jeb Bush warning people to prepare for an upcoming hurricane by blunting stating that for at least the first five days, those affected by a hurricane would be on their own.
And I guess Gen’rul Honore was too busy being NOLA’s Warlord that he did not hear about another hurricane that happened while he was strutting for the TV cameras: Hurricane Wilma, a category three event that swept through South Florida a month or so after Katrina. We got nailed bad but we were prepared and came out of it because we were prepared and even the few that were not prepared, got relief faster than their fellow New Orleans idiots because the Rescue Resources were not taxed and overwhelmed by crowds of ignorant idjits who took a chance by doing nothing and lost.
As for looters, we had some, but nothing in the nightmarish behavior of New Orleans. Those who were not caught by cops were either lucky or were sent running away by armed civilians who may have or have not placed a couple of shots by their immediate breathing area. Police was not taxed either and could respond to other incidents because neighborhoods were being kept safe by its inhabitants.
Florida did not need the National Guard patrolling the streets because we civilians were keeping them safe. Hell, we were probably better armed that them. Armed Florida Civilians made men like Russel Honore unnecessary and irrelevant.
And now you understand more clearly that tweet.
Storms bring out the ignorant idiots spewing bs that only makes sense to other ignorant idiots….
I live in Central Florida, and I can personally attest to Miguel’s point that Floridians being a legally well-armed people, overwhelming do ‘not’ tolerate the criminal activity of looting. In my county, all ethnicities legally carry or have firearms on their properties and know enough ‘use-of-force’ law to bring them to bear on looters staying within the bounds of the law.
Case in point, one of my neighbors was out at 2 a.m. last Wednesday night when the storm was raging to check on noises he heard and perhaps damage to his home. He could faintly see two individuals on the back porch of his next-door neighbor’s house and knowing that his neighbors had left the area to escape the storm, he retrieved his 12ga shotgun, turned on his exterior house lights and stood in the light with the shotgun in full view of the trespassers on the porch. He heard the panicked words, “Hey dawg, don’t shoot” as they ran off through the back yard into the tree-belt. My good neighbor has the opposite skin color of me…I’m white. We are color blind in my Florida neighborhood, and we protect one another’s possessions and lives. Central Floridians stand united as diverse people, against the criminal element of society.
Who can forget “Beer Guy” in New Orleans after Katrina, contrasted with the hand painted signs after any hurricane in Florida ‘LOOTERS WILL BE SHOT?”