Well, that pretty much proves that point - not everyone has the benefit of your experience Nute, and obviously if I was there I'd be joining the queues of apparently clueless people looking for a clean water source instead of boiling the other.
Ain't that the sad truth. How I grew up, learning how to do this stuff was normal and expected. Part of me looks at people on their roofs when there's only forty feet of water to the next house, and the next, and so on out of town - and it doesn't occur to them to swim? Part of me just thinks "Feh. City folk." and shakes my head.
But you're right - people DON'T know how to survive anymore. It's not a part of societal education, people are soft and dependent on modern convenience. Tragic, and no one individual person is to blame, but events like this show that such training from an early age is pretty damn helpful, even if it's never needed.
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Date: 2005-09-02 01:47 pm (UTC)Ain't that the sad truth. How I grew up, learning how to do this stuff was normal and expected. Part of me looks at people on their roofs when there's only forty feet of water to the next house, and the next, and so on out of town - and it doesn't occur to them to swim? Part of me just thinks "Feh. City folk." and shakes my head.
But you're right - people DON'T know how to survive anymore. It's not a part of societal education, people are soft and dependent on modern convenience. Tragic, and no one individual person is to blame, but events like this show that such training from an early age is pretty damn helpful, even if it's never needed.