4737 posts 7/29/2007 4:29 am
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Pondlife
Well it’s been the heaviest rains in England since records began and they have resulted in some of the worst floods ‒ and certainly the worst summer floods ‒ in living memory. Hundreds of thousands of homes have been affected and billions of pounds of damage.
Like all crises the dire situation has brought people together. There have been so many stories of public spiritedness, not only by the emergency services, but by countless citizens. Ordinary folk who you’d pass on the street without a second glance showing acts of compassion, generosity and bravery. Some people even compared it all to the blitz of World War II.
But rather like the blitz, where thieves would lurk around Kensington and Chelsea waiting for bombs to drop there, because the wealthy folk who lived there would have valuables such as jewellery and expensive watches on their person and if they should become bomb victims there were easy pickings, so it has been with the floods.
A whole area was put at risk because someone stole valuable portable flood defences, abandoned cars and homes have been looted. When bottled water was being rationed to one pack per person outside supermarkets (there is no safe drinking water ‒ more a sewage soup) there were those who cheated the system and joined every queue going, to fill up their cars with much more than they needed. Before the supplies appeared there were those making a fast buck by reselling bottled water at five times the price they paid for it.
And now the waters have subsided there are fly by night “builders” looking for easy money on cheapskate bodged restorations for the uninsured.
But the worst I heard was that some of the water bowsers that were placed at street corners for drinking water had been vandalised. Some had had the taps deliberately left open, others tipped over, others yet again had had bleach added to them.
Worse than that……
Some bowsers had been urinated into.
What kind of person does something, not only gross, but as deeply antisocial as this? And if it is a juvenile, what kind of upbringing? What kind of value-system has been learned, and how?
A newspaper headline simply said, “Pondlife,” and I agree.
On a lighter note ‒ the pic shows a young woman who, realising the floodwater would go over her wellies, stripped to her knickers and waded through.
Good on you! Love that smile! |
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15173 posts 7/31/2007 3:13 am |
It is sad to hear of the things happening all over...*hugs*
May you and yours remain safe and everyone else as well
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32404 posts 7/29/2007 8:51 am |
the best and the worst.........
i love that woman's smile as well......it says it all......it says survive....it says adapt......it says ain't life grand even now
hugs to you and to all my UK buddies..........
and to the pondscum who choose to make it about them.........well, they will find themselves alone when the time comes, won't they?
You cannot conceive the many without the one.
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36204 posts 7/29/2007 7:44 am |
who knows why that's just evil, I hope things improve in your part of the world and soon.
To bad not everyone can have the attitude that cute girl has 
If Love Is Not The Answer,
Then I Misunderstood The Question
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2601 posts 7/29/2007 7:26 am |
The pond we all live in is filled with angel fish...and bottom feeders...some people are loving and compassionate...and some people are dark and full of hate...I have often wondered how they got that way...not only mean spirited but down right evil...with a total disregard for another human being...sad...sad...commentary but don't you think they are living in their own hell.
kind thoughts,
Moonfire
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