Re: [californiadisasters] Officials Perform Rescues, Seek Missing Hikers as Rains Hit L.A. Area For 6th Straight Day

But, Lin, it's simple: "I want to get over there."

I once saw the police blocking a street with a patrol car facing the wrong
way in the lanes, red and blue lights going, flashing headlights going,
lights behind the grille flashing; and a woman drove right up until she was
bumper-to-bumper with that police car before she stopped, and then her
argument was, "But I want to go up that way."

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lin Kerns" <linkerns@gmail.com>
To: <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: [californiadisasters] Officials Perform Rescues, Seek Missing
Hikers as Rains Hit L.A. Area For 6th Straight Day

Here is a video a stormchaser friend of mine made the day of the flooding of
Lytle Creek. Amazing. I simply cannot wrap my mind around anyone who would
attempt to breach this body of water.

Lin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ4noNV1YgI

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:36 PM, newnethboy <kef413@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> The hikers apparently went out there even while it was raining, but even
> so,
> we can give them the benefit of the doubt. (One "stupid" or "uninformed"
> decision.)
>
> I have a lot less respect for those who drive around the barricades into
> flood waters, esp. in Lytle Creek, where the road floods with fast-running
> water every time there's appreciable rain. Really! What part of "the road
> is
> blocked with a barricade completely blocking the road and signed with 'DO
> NOT PASS--FLOODING'" don't you understand?!*
>
> And it's illegal to enter LA's flood control channels. Period. Getting
> trapped there is a result of deliberately violating the law.
>
> The teenagers several years ago who got swept away as they were ditching
> school via their normal route through the flood control channel (IIRC, all
> died) are in a different state than the homeless who have camped in the
> rivers, but it's still all the same in that they're not supposed to be
> there
> and there's a reason why.
>
> Yes, certainly, we've all done stupid things (many of us today already),
> but
> still, doing stupid things is way different than being stupid/ignorant as
a
> way of life.
>
> ------------------
> * Saturday, the CHP log recorded that at the scene of one TC, where the
> center divider had been breached by the collision, people were driving
> through that hole into (uncontrolled) oncoming lanes so as not to have to
> wait!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Bates" <HappyMoosePhoto@gmail.com<HappyMoosePhoto%40gmail.com>
> >
> To:
<californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com<californiadisasters%40yahoogroups.com>
> >
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 11:56 PM
> Subject: RE: [californiadisasters] Officials Perform Rescues, Seek Missing
> Hikers as Rains Hit L.A. Area For 6th Straight Day
>
> > We ALL do stupid things occasionally (I sometimes wonder how I made it
> > through my teenage years). In almost all cases, it isn't ignorance
(which
> > can be fixed) but was an informed decision (like the hikers, who SHOULD
> have
> > checked the forecast, DUH).
> >
> > "Those who wager on the stupidity of humans will seldom be disappointed"
> >
> > Rick
> >
> >
> >
> > _____
> >
> > From:
californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com<californiadisasters%40yahoogroups.com>
> >
[mailto:californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com<californiadisasters%40yahoogroup
s.com>]
> On Behalf Of newnethboy
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 11:15 AM
> > To:
californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com<californiadisasters%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: Re: [californiadisasters] Officials Perform Rescues, Seek
> Missing
> > Hikers as Rains Hit L.A. Area For 6th Straight Day
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > As long as I've been living in the LA area, every time we've had rains,
> > we've had at least one case of a person or persons needed rescue (or
> being
> > beyond rescue) in the flood channels and at least one case of a person
or
> > persons crossing, against all advice, signs, barricades, flooded
> > roadway--often a rain-swollen Lytle Creek.
> >
> > As has been stated on this group numerous times, "You can fix stupid."
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kim Noyes" <kimnoyes@gmail.com <kimnoyes%40gmail.com> <mailto:
> kimnoyes%40gmail.com <kimnoyes%2540gmail.com>> >
> > To: "CaliforniaDisasters"
<californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com<californiadisasters%40yahoogroups.com>
> >
<mailto:californiadisasters%40yahoogroups.com<californiadisasters%2540yahoog
roups.com>>
> >
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 10:23 AM
> > Subject: [californiadisasters] Officials Perform Rescues, Seek Missing
> > Hikers as Rains Hit L.A. Area For 6th Straight Day
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

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