Shortly after hurricane, I came through there, started again news reports. People that tried to stay, that were in their houses when hurricane night came through, says, what we left for Rita, we left for all these other storms, nothing happened; everything was fine. One kind of depressing story, a lady who stayed at her house, and she called her friend, was talking about how she may have made a mistake, because the water was so high, she was standing and these houses are up on steel.
Now, they are 15, 20 feet off the ground. She was standing at a window and her propane tank went floating by. So, the water was already 10, 15, maybe 20 feet deep where she was at. They found her body about, maybe a week later, two weeks later, mile or so, mile-and-a-half from her house, -- where her house used to because it was destroyed. Her whole house was destroyed, everything was gone like a lot of houses here in Crystal Beach.
And they found her body several days later, but that's the complacency. A lot of people become complacent at disasters, and they will say, well, because this happened before, everything is going to be fine this time or everything was fine that time so everything is going to be fine this time. An example of this is the bird flu, I mean not the bird flu, the swine flu that just came through.
For those of you that know your history, in 1918, there was a pandemic influenza that went worldwide. It killed between 20 and 50 million people. It started out in the spring of 1918, it's just a little small flu, no big deal, not too many people died. It was that typical seasonal flu, no problem. It came back that fall as a killer, worldwide killer. So people became complacent.
So, whenever you hear of a disaster, take it seriously, because you never know what is going to happen.
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