Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : John Iwaniszek
Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 14:46:18

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Trouble <troubleNOSPAM@tekfactory.com> wrote in
news:OoqdnbAOmNIKyIXeRVn-1g@comcast.com: 

> Nick wrote:
> 
>> Here is a story that I find most disturbing because it will affect me
>> both personally and long term.
> 
>> Overnight Baton Rouge Becomes Largest City in Louisiana
> 
> I immediately wonder if all the city's power, water, and sewage/waste 
> processing capacity can withstand doubling the demands put upon them 
> overnight? 
> 
>> In a day, this city has become the largest in Louisiana, and grim
>> local officials here predicted it would double in size, to about
>> 800,000, permanently.
> 
> If they're counting nearby localities that will have to take overflow 
> they're probably right.
>  
>> There were reports of attempted carjackings at 24-hour gas stations. 
>> Authorities decided to impose a 10 p.m. cutoff for gas sales.
> 
> I have to wonder if these people want the cars for shelter, or to go 
> somewhere where they have family? There ought to be a better way to 
> alleviate these problems.
> 
> If they just want the car well that is a police problem. 
> 
>> Sheriff's deputies were dispatched as armed guards for grocery
>> warehouses, and police stepped up around-the-clock controls downtown,
> 
> But when will this people doubling start to effect the lines in local 
> grocery stores, will locals run out and stock up on everything just to
> be ahead of any possible shortages, and like Gasoline runs, cause
> shortages by their behavior?
> 
> We have this all the time when snow threatens DC...
> 
> The dilemma gets worse if you take part yourself to protect yourself
> from the "idiots" sort of a prisoners dilemma, there is only enough
> food for everyone if everybody acts rationally.
> 
>> With a new month beginning Thursday, hundreds of the newly homeless
>> and poor crowded up the area's food-stamp offices to start
>> applications. 
> 
> According to the USDA's Food stamp Q&A the average monthly benefit is
> $86 and aren't available for 30 days, if they expedite the benefits 7
> days. 
> 
> Even assuming that's enough to feed them, and maybe unemployment
> benefits can provide them something to live on (if they hadn't already
> maxed out their unemployment benefits since 2000)
> 
> There still might not be enough shelters, hotels, motels, and YMCAs to
> house them all, and again, power, water, sewage.
> 
>> In addition, others are coming to town looking for opportunity.
>> "People are showing up with suitcases and suitcases of cash, offering
>> to buy houses and real estate on the spot," said Walker, who is also
>> a real estate broker.
> 
> I really regret the bubble these 'opportunists' are going to cause.
> 
> And what's worse, like the food and gas shortages, the people who
> don't sell will be the ones affected.
> 
> Its reprehensible to combine human greed with human tragedy...
> 
> I mean if I had suitcases full of cash, the last thing I'd be thinking
> walking into a disaster relief area is "lets try and make some money"
> 

I considered the possibility of buy some cheap NO land, but I don't have 
the cash and I don't know NO.

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