Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Interesting observation….. Date:   9/2/2021 6:47:43 PM

Well, yes and no.  A lot of those killed were when water came gushing into their basement apartments and they couldn't get out.  Also, the Northeast doesn't get a lot of tornados or deadly hurricanes, particularly inland where most of the damage occurred, so they weren't prepared.  People got stuck in flooded streets.  

But I can tell you a big difference.  The people in the Northeast will wait for FEMA and the Red Cross and what other organizations that will show up.  But here in the South, people do not wait for the official help to arrive - people, your neighbors and strangers, will be at your house helping you before the official help arrives.  They will be feeding you, feeding the helpers that are helping you, people will be in Walmart buying up supplies to give you or the church to be distributed.  I remember when Sandy hit in NJ, my sister, who was living there, told me that she ran into a group from Alabama, that had driven up there to help - to join whatever efforts were already going on and they didn't find anything.  

It's a much different culture.  Like the South, it has its good points and bad points; but people just aren't as help oriented there as people are here.  A couple of months ago, I hit a pothole and it cut my tire which went flat.  As my husband and I messed around with it - a man from a closeby house came out and insisted on changing the tire for us.  I offered him money for his help and he refused; but I insisted and told him to donate it and he reluctatantly took it.  If that had happened to me up in the Northeast, someone would have offered to call 911 for me.