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#101652 - 08/05/07 01:47 AM Re: Time to hijack this thread [Re: Susan]
Russ Offline
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Registered: 06/02/06
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Sue,
Yes, really sad for the husband & father.
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#101653 - 08/05/07 01:54 AM Re: Time to hijack this thread [Re: Susan]
JCWohlschlag Offline
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Registered: 11/26/06
Posts: 724
Loc: Sterling, Virginia, United Sta...
Originally Posted By: Susan
I just thought of something more horrible: I wonder if any of the people whose cars went into the water had picked up their babies or toddlers from daycare on their way home, and had them strapped into the back seat?

Yes, it happened.
Quote:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1649458,00.html
Among the missing is Sadiya Sahal, 23, and her 2-year-old daughter, Hanah Mohamed. Sahal, who is five months pregnant, left home at 5:15 p.m. with the toddler in the back seat. She called her family at 5:30 p.m. saying she was stuck in traffic on the bridge, according to Omar Jamal, a spokesman for the family. That was her last phone call.

"Her husband is destroyed. He's in shock," Jamal said.

It's looking more and more like a Spare Air might be a good vehicle carry. shocked
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#102784 - 08/16/07 10:35 PM Re: Time to hijack this thread [Re: JCWohlschlag]
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Registered: 11/04/05
Posts: 125
Loc: Mid-Atlantic
Pray that you are never in a situation that requires you to use everything in your emergency kit.

The idea of a kit, to me, is to have a range of assets which could apply to all of the situations I can imagine - with the flexibility to deal well with the situations I can't.

Car's in the water? You can get out but can't swim? Perhaps that emergency poncho could be tied to hold air and be a flotation device.

It would be a shame to see people scrap their preparedness kits just because the disasters that happened were different from the ones for which they prepared.
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