VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, [2], 3, 4, 5 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 14:54:59 09/21/05 Wed
Author: BL
Author Host/IP: pool-70-109-99-150.alb.east.verizon.net / 70.109.99.150
Subject: BTW- That ice I mentioned above cost about $10,000 per truckload, plus about $2700 in shipping costs to get it there!
In reply to: BL 's message, "What a disgusting mess this is! >>>>>> (copied from the field)" on 14:28:21 09/21/05 Wed

According the article, the government paid 50 cents per pound for the ice, so that's 20,000 pounds of ice per truck. It will be saved to use for the next disaster, but what do you tell the people who lost all or most of their food when the power went out and had no clean drinking water, "Sorry, we forgot about you" or "It was there for the asking, you just had to come get it".

Another thing that riled me was seeing pictures of clothing and donated goods just dropped into parking lots with nobody in charge of keeping order while poor people dug through piles of stuff looking for things they could use. Nobody had a spare building or even a tent to loan where they could put all the stuff brought to their city or town to keep it from being out in the elements?

I can understand that the truckdrivers had orders where to take the things and had to return home once it was delivered but who told them where to put it and why was it left in the open like that for people to dig over like bears in a dump?
Ok getting back down off my soapbox and going to take a nap before I pop a few blood vessels here.

Peace and love,
Old bird who's about to lose it,
Betty

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]
Forum timezone: GMT-4
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.