Subject: Re: The RCR and the Flood (with links to photos)
From: Ryan Gill
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:41:56 -0400

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, David C Lawrence wrote:
>> Bob MacFarland writes:
>>> > I've run into lots of things on the bike trips I've taken over the
>>> > years, but this is the first time I've ever seen such flooding. W Va is
>>> > a poor state to begin with, and it was sad to see people lose what
>>> > little they had. Inevitably, I hear jokes about trailers and whatnot
>>> > delivered in bad southern accents, but the reality is that those folks
>>> > do the best they can with very little and I, for one, won't put them
>>> > down.
>>
>> I completely agree, and I got to spend nearly seven intimate hours
>> with them.  For those of you who find this at odds with my jokes about
>> a "sale on asphalt siding", my issue there is just aesthetic.  These
>> people have hard lives.

Yeah its easy to pick at people that aren't around. But I'm
beginning to determine that many urbanites wouldn't lift a
finger to help someone in need. The number of people that
drive around an accident where no EMS or Police have
arrived at is evidence of that.

>> I was very impressed with the way a lot of people in town conducted
>> themselves during a time of high drama and tension.  I do not readily
>> use the term "hero" to describe people, as I think it is somewhat

Heh. For a nice fiction version of this read 1632.

>> children who were being swept away in the flood water.  People were
>> courteous to me even as I snapped picture after picture, which I was
>> concerned might be somewhat provocative.  They worked well together

Send the pictures to the local paper and to a regional
paper.

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