Poor people

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

Poverty has less to do with actual money and more to do with attitude.
This week we have heard countless radio and tv interviews with refugees from New Orleans. Some of the people talk about how they prepared and how they were resourceful when the worst happenned. Others talk about how they couldn't afford to prepare, or to leave, and they were condemmed to die because of their poverty. They didn't have anything to drink for days.

I can see that it would be hard to evacuate with no car and nowhere to go, but let's get serious about getting prepared. How much does it cost to fill a bunch of jugs and bottles with water? How about a few baggies of trail mix? A portable radio can be picked up cheap or free at rummage sales. Garbage bags would be handy. A flashlight.

There is virtually no able bodied person in America who couldn't scrounge up enough stuff to be prepared for a three day disaster. Truely poor people think they can't afford to be prepared, for storms or anything else in life. For some reason they are always unlucky. Temporarly broke people prepare for things. Eventually things go well for them.