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cynatnite

(31,011 posts)
Wed May 29, 2019, 04:26 PM May 2019

Natural disasters suck no matter where you live or how you vote...

I grew up in Oklahoma for the most part. I can't count the times we ran to the storm cellar to get out of the way of a raging tornado. We'd huddle in the dark listening to the wind howl, the thunder and hear the ravages of a tornado tearing everything up around us. I would listen to my mom pray that nothing falls on the door so that we wouldn't be trapped inside.

Two of my grade schools were destroyed by tornadoes. Teachers and students died. I've lost friends and one family member to a tornado.

Even though I don't live in Oklahoma any longer, my sister still does as does her children and grandchildren. She voted tRump. She calls herself a repub. It's why we don't talk politics. She's still my sister and I love her very much as well as the rest of them.

Natural disasters suck. I've been in more than one, including a horrific earthquake in California while in the military.

Whatever the politics, people lose their homes, get injured or sadly lose their lives. We can bitch about their voting to our heart's content, but it does not mean they deserve that kind of horror.

That's what the RW does. I listened to a woman in a VA waiting room declare that New Orleans was cleaned out by gawd.

This is not who we are.

Oh, and red states does not mean 100% red. There's a significant portion of Dems, Libs and progressives that live there, too. Including me.

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