Reply #39: There sure is a lot of "eye of the beholder" going on. [View All]

I have to wonder what impels some cameraman to focus on people wading chest-deep in water. I have to wonder at the assumptions regarding the goals these people have. I scratch my head. Let's see ... I'm in my home or apartment without water or power and for some strange reason it occurs to me to go shopping for a 24-pack of toilet paper? To say the least, it sounds improbable. On the other hand, what was I doing during the days leading up to hurricane landfall? Well, I was probably making sure I had some basic needs covered. I'd probably make a trip to CostCo and make sure I had bottled water, toilet paper, canned goods, first aid supplies, bread with preservatives (not that bakery stuff), and whatever else I might need to last a week. Then the floodwaters rise and I discover my supplies won't be high and dry. Then what? Well, I'd probably be forced to find shelter elsewhere -- and I might take the supplies I had. Lord only knows what I'd try to salvage. I might even try to help out the people taking shelter in a school or church. Imagine my surprise when the Minutemen come riding by in a rented helicopter and shoot me through the skull. I guess it wasn't wise of me to lay in those supplies. (Gee... and nobody asked to see my receipt, either.)