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.
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* 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>
To: <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.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
> [mailto:californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of newnethboy
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 11:15 AM
> To: californiadisasters@yahoogroups.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 <mailto:kimnoyes%40gmail.com> >
> To: "CaliforniaDisasters" <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:californiadisasters%40yahoogroups.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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