Allow me to intrude a note of reality into your palace of self-sufficient fantasy.
When you are huddled into a football stadium with 20,000 other people, listening to a Category 4 hurricane roar overhead, and the wind rips a hole in the dome, you do not think to yourself "Ah! What an opportunity! I must find another refugee who has a tarpaulin and collect rainwater."
Even if you are an unholy combination of Paul Bunyan, Daniel Boone, and Robinson Crusoe, you are far too busy thinking "Dear God, I am going to die," to make plans for the next day. And criticizing people who *were* in that situation for being insufficiently resourceful shows an astonishing lack of both imagination and empathy for a situation you are apparently incapable of comprehending.
I, also, have lived in tornado and hurricane zones. When the worst happened, we sent help to the survivors; we didn't spend our time bitching about how much better we would have coped in the same situation.
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When you are huddled into a football stadium with 20,000 other people, listening to a Category 4 hurricane roar overhead, and the wind rips a hole in the dome, you do not think to yourself "Ah! What an opportunity! I must find another refugee who has a tarpaulin and collect rainwater."
Even if you are an unholy combination of Paul Bunyan, Daniel Boone, and Robinson Crusoe, you are far too busy thinking "Dear God, I am going to die," to make plans for the next day. And criticizing people who *were* in that situation for being insufficiently resourceful shows an astonishing lack of both imagination and empathy for a situation you are apparently incapable of comprehending.
I, also, have lived in tornado and hurricane zones. When the worst happened, we sent help to the survivors; we didn't spend our time bitching about how much better we would have coped in the same situation.