On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:28:18 -0400, HK wrote:

jps wrote:
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:05:07 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:24:12 -0400, John H
wrote:

Why the big difference? Some great pictures. Be sure to scroll down
the page. Oh, and some good questions also.

http://tinyurl.com/boebj5
There is another perspective to this. The difference between city
people and country people. The black folks who lived out in the bayou
didn't riot, panic or complain about FEMA either.
I really believe a hurricane hitting ANY big city will be a disaster
of apocalyptic proportions. New York City leaps to mind.
Country people do tend to be a lot more self reliant, no matter how
much melanin they have in their skin..

But not exclusive to the country. There are a percentage of those who
live in the city who can take care of their own, and not because they
grew up in the country.

I does take a different set of skills to thrive in the city but it
doesn't mean that you cannot also be skilled at crafts.


*Interesting* that you use the word crafts, since it is also the word
many top-end construction trades use to describe their skill sets. The
etymology for that comes out of the craft guilds of the Middle Ages, as
does the word journeyman, which in those days was a young man who
completed an apprenticeship and set off, literally, on a journey through
his parts of Europe to pick up even more skills from craftworkers in
other cities.

Mr. Netweaver understands what "craft" is, he just doesn't like my
politics and wanted to affix a "light on the feet" attribution to me.

Crafts are what's disappearing in America and it's a sad state of
affairs. Even when I turned wrenches as a kid, there were those who
truly understood a mechanism and those who replaced parts. The ratio
is going the wrong direction.

I'm truly in bliss when fashioning something out of scrap materials to
solve a problem.