Hurricane Florence rescue efforts of folks stranded in the storm continue. Comments overheard in Buzzy’s Country Store tend to run along the lines “They ought to just leave those dummies there.” “Don’t feel sorry for them, they were told to evacuate.” “What the hell is wrong with those people? They knew they were gonna get slammed and now they got to be rescued. To hell with ’em.”
As with most comments made in Buzzy’s that I disagree with, I usually just let these slide and not say anything in return. On the issue though, I tend to agree with my friend Massey who noted this on her FB page:
Some great Washington Post photo’s made me think of this:
(Short commercial break – the following photo doesn’t really jive with my rescue theme here, but I thought it was worth showing for the way that the Duffy’s folks advertise their establishment:)
This from their website:
Back to Flo and rescue ops, this comment appeared somewhere online last Friday:
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Show of hands – how many of you thought that this was an Aretha song? Fontella recorded this million seller in 1965 a couple years before Aretha hit the big time: