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- Mar 14, 2023
It was definitely a time where everyone checked on each other and we took grocery lists from neighbors if need be. Hell, even in blizzards we as a comminuty still come together and gather supplies in a vehicle able to get to stores.
as a brit, where we don't really get capital "W" Weather, its actually really heartwarming to read the accounts by you and other posters in this thread. its good to know that human kindness still exists where it really matters.
worst we get a sprinkling of snow. even our rural councils can cope with it cos they're more used to it, especially in the north or where its hilly. but elsewhere its full on standstill. in a bad such episode i knocked on my elderly neighbours, who i was on good terms with, to see if they wanted me to get them some food. they were like "we're fine, we went shopping this morning" and i've never tried again. its not even clear how we'd know if its a case where you really need to look out for people cos in urban areas it just doesn't happen.
do recall leaving a southern US state while a hurricane was hitting. on the way to the airport the road was turning to a river. no doubt if our flight was a few hours later we couldn't have got to it, even if it was able to take off safely. the news a few days later said a town we'd just been in basically didn't exist any more. i don't know how you guys cope with it, you don't all have Robin funding your hotel stays, the tenacity and generous spirit of the human species shows itself at times like these.
all this said, i have no pity for polissa having no community, no help, at such times. relationships are give and take. she focuses too much on the "aid" and not at all on the "mutual."
worst we get a sprinkling of snow. even our rural councils can cope with it cos they're more used to it, especially in the north or where its hilly. but elsewhere its full on standstill. in a bad such episode i knocked on my elderly neighbours, who i was on good terms with, to see if they wanted me to get them some food. they were like "we're fine, we went shopping this morning" and i've never tried again. its not even clear how we'd know if its a case where you really need to look out for people cos in urban areas it just doesn't happen.
do recall leaving a southern US state while a hurricane was hitting. on the way to the airport the road was turning to a river. no doubt if our flight was a few hours later we couldn't have got to it, even if it was able to take off safely. the news a few days later said a town we'd just been in basically didn't exist any more. i don't know how you guys cope with it, you don't all have Robin funding your hotel stays, the tenacity and generous spirit of the human species shows itself at times like these.
all this said, i have no pity for polissa having no community, no help, at such times. relationships are give and take. she focuses too much on the "aid" and not at all on the "mutual."