Larry wrote:
In Charleston, SC, 1989, Hurricane Hugo, not one single "agency" or other
bureaucracy did a damned thing for anyone that I ever met or know,

You didn't get out much, did you?



... I was lucky enough to be a survivor in in Summerville, SC.

Not to belittle H. Hugo, but how many people died in Summerville during
Hugo?


... It
took us 2 weeks of 10 hour days to cut our way out to the main entrance.

Really? I visited friends in Summerville a week after. Goose Creek too.


.... No Red Cross bureaucrats were
ever seen in their shiny trucks, wearing their pseudo-military smart
uniforms advertising the company logos...nothing.

That's funny, there was both Red Cross and Nat'l Guard handing out water
in downtown Charleston a week after, and at least through the 2nd week.



Once we were out of the neighborhood, we were going nowhere. The main
roads were still "waiting" for the "agencies".

Larry, I don't know what kind of right-wing la-la land you were stuck in
after Hurricane Hugo... and apparently since then... but it doesn't bear
any resemblance to the Charleston that I saw.

I was there. You can bull**** a lot of folks, but don't try that with me.

Doug King