Whining

Hello, good blog-reading peoples!

Please read MDB's blog about this same topic! It's E-P-I-C!!!!!

For those of you who a) cannot read this typing; (b) are too stupid to fend for yourselves; (c) have a combination of one or the other; (d) have been socialized into the "gimme gimme, something for nothing" society of today.....listen up!

NO ONE OWES YOU A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G!!!!!!! If you're looking to FEMA to make you wealthy or bail you out because you had no insurance, no job, no prospects, no family or whatever........GET OVER YOURSELVES!!!!

Sorry.....but I'm totally sick and tired of listening to the complaining and whining about what FEMA is doing, has done, had NOT done, or whatever. This is TEXAS!!!! We get up in the morning, go to work, and do what we can to solve our own problems! If you're looking to the government for a handout, you're in the wrong place! Go back to Louisiana or wherever it is you came from! We're pretty self-reliant around here and we don't need and don't WANT some pointy-headed bureaucrat telling us what we can and cannot do!

Another aspect of that: Who twisted your arm and forced you to live here? Perhaps this comes as a huge surprise, but living on the Gulf Coast brings with it the hazard of potential hurricanes from time to time! If you're going to live here, you have to accept that possibility, just like you have to come to realize that living on the west coast brings with it the potential for wild fires and earthquakes, living in the midwest exposes you to the possibility of tornados, residing in New England bring the potential for "Noreasters," large river valleys (Mississippi and Ohio, mostly) the possibility of flooding in the spring, etc. Let's face it; just living (period) is not a hazard-free proposition! You choose where you live and face the consequences of your decision! You take the good with the bad and move on!

Oh, and BTW, New Orleans, if you choose to enjoy the "Big Easy" lifestyle, you have to know that living below sea level has "disaster" written all over it! So don't bring your whining around here when your basin fills up and there's no place for the water to go! You knew (or should have known) that it would happen eventually! Get over it!

Meanwhile, I appreciate all of the efforts of everyone who's been trying very hard to restore our power, water, etc. However....I, and many of my close friends here in our neighborhood, had generators and gasoline to provide our own power as we waited in the interim. We don't want, and we don't NEED, the Federal government to bail us out!

Bottom line.....S-T-O-P W-H-I-N-I-N-G!!!!!!! You whiners and "Oh, woe is me" types need to look around and thank God that this storm wasn't worse than it was! Did anyone see what happened to Galveston, Chystal Beach, or Bolivar? Now, can you imagine what it would have been like if this had been a Cat 3, 4, or 5 storm? OMG! It would have been SO much worse! So thank God that you have all of your fingers and toes, that you're moving air in and out, and you have whatever it is you've been left with; it could have been much, MUCH worse!