Thanks for posting.

Wow!

Like a dagger through the heart...that's what truth feels like.

Carteret County is right on the ocean and includes Morehead City.

We'll be reading countless stories in the coming months of the suffering and deaths caused by Florence......

To everyone in NC and SC today........

the grinding poverty that exists in America is being ignored..It's everywhere and the issue is being largely ignored by both parties.

I'm so ashamed how poor people are treated in America. That's why I support Democratic Socialism.

Thank you for posting this. On a Democratic board it should have hundreds of recs.. but we're talking about how great Cuomo is and how he "gets things done." Well, addressing poverty ain't "getting done," and addressing income inequality ain't "getting done."

I was not nearly that eloquent. Everyone should read this! Thank you so much for posting it.

something I had never thought of.

As with every hurricane, there has been a lot of criticism of people who don't evacuate, without thought to the limitations that many people live with. I can remember times in my life when I would be unable to evacuate - no money, no car or an unreliable car, nowhere to go, etc. I was truly living day to day and had very few options.

It is so easy to judge other people from afar, but we don't always know what other people are going through.

people need the means to evacuate and a place to go.. Whenever there's a mandatory evacuation, these essential needs must be met by the governing body.

Busses and shelters, people.. No one should be left behind. But that's not how America rolls. Everyone for themselves.

I would still have to worry about being stranded somewhere on the side of the road with two children in the car and no money for food or lodging.

And often no choice at all.. I think of NO and the Superdome.

What a nightmare that was. Horror after horror every day.

The poverty can be crushing and then have to deal with a disaster situation? Leave town? my car barely made it across town, Stock up? By the end of the week if I didn’t get paid on Friday, we didn’t have food for next week.

would be laughable. It was hard enough keeping the most basic necessities in the house. No bonus size packages of toilet paper or bottled water. Most purchases were minimal and often didn't last until payday. I rarely ever bought anything until it ran out.

Was that the media stories I saw focused on people who were "trusting God." At least one clearly had the money to leave; I don't know about the woman with 3 kids who said, "There's safety in numbers." Maybe she couldn't afford to leave and was whistling in the dark (or rain). In New Orleans, for the really bad hurricanes, it was customary for one person to stay behind to protect the house while the rest of the family left, if they could afford it. Katrina's striking at the end of the month meant that many couldn't afford to go.

Another injustice: The young woman's landlord can probably get more aid to repair his shack than she can for losing all her belongings.

that the media often focuses on the more absurd cases, but we see these same players during every hurricane. Also many of these people have lived through many tropical storms and hurricanes, complete with the media hype. It is easy to judge them from inland.

Maybe it would be better if the media put more focus on the people who really have limitations when it comes to evacuating.

Good point about the woman's landlord benefiting more from federal aid than the tenant.

recover before the next flood comes." That was a response to that FB post and that is our whole problem in a nut shell right there.

The so called "progressive results” band-aid that the pragmatic people tout are never enough to take care of the bleeding jugular.

The Shock Doctrine goes into place everytime there's a disaster.

to educate them on what is involved in a hurricane and recovery. Of course, they might get some kind of weird kick out of the hardship of others. We will see what kind of emergency help and money will find it's way into the pockets of Florence hurricane victims. Maybe ICE can move some money back to FEMA!

while relief efforts went on enthusiastically in other places damaged by hurricanes. Trump threw the people of Puerto Rico some paper towels and went back to DC and his weekend golf game.

We help the well-off in this country when disasters strike. The poor have to deal with things for themselves. That's why when fires occur in California, the news reporters are all verklempt about the "multi-million dollar homes" destroyed. We care what happens to the rich. The poor, not so much.

It's the Calvinist way, you see. If you're successful and rich, that's a sign that you are favored by God. If you're poor, obviously you're not one of the "elect."

This is not one of America's best traits.

They were responsible for the institutionalism of charity, in order to separate the "worthy" poor from the "unworthy."

Excellent post!

AND understand.

Thank you for posting this but judging by another thread on here it's probably going to fall on deaf ears.

being rescued from flood waters in New Bern.

If you haven't seen the video, you hear him talking. And it becomes so apparent why many people are unable to evacuate. Limited finances. Family that won't go. A pet that needs care. How can I leave what little I do have (that I can't afford to replace)? A sense of we survived others, we'll survive this because after all it's going to hit 90 miles away from here.

Here's the video if you haven't seen it. You have to let it play for about 30 seconds before it gets to him.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article218455105.html

And a tweet from the photographer/reporter

Link to tweet

Ive seen people bashing poor people for not being able to leave, regardless of their politics poor is poor and no one should be bashed for it.