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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
Perhaps coincidentally, I have found an amusing and frequent correlation between those folks who whine the loudest about police/government interference in their lives and the ones who yell the loudest as soon as they get in some sort of trouble that requires city or federal assistance. There's also an interesting match between how much people claim they want government agencies to leave them alone, and how fast they try to sue/blame them if they aren't protected from their own stupidity...
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The human element.
There are about 12,500 High River residents you're not seeing in the news right now, worried about the future but quietly making adjustments.
Although I know a lot of people in a High River, having hung out there for 26 years more or less, I'm thinking this morning about a couple I met only a week before the floods.
I stopped by their place early on a Saturday morning. They were in their early 30's, sitting on their front porch in the sun, coffee mugs in hand, waiting for me to stop in to pick up a food product they were donating for the half marathon I was organizing. They had also supplied the same thing to the food tent at the Calgary Marathon. They made this food product in their basement. They told me business was booming. They were smiling and very happy on an early, sunny, summer morning.
A week later they would have been underwater. A big setback.
Individual stories multiplied by thousands.
Cowperson