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Neal Eckhardt wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:53:59 GMT, Kurt Ullman
> wrote:
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> >Actually, if you followed the disaster guidelines from FEMA and ARC, you
> >would have had other arrangements in place for your medications.
>
> And we would have a months worth of water and food in our basements. I
> doubt a significant percentage of the population have done this. Did
> you?
Actually I did, but that is because (a) I am anal retentive (b)
worked in public safety and emergent managment in an earlier life and
(c) wanted to give me wife a reason to make fun of tendencies toward (a).
I also a have a weather radio and a whole bunch of flashlights.
>
> I guess it's easy for retired people (not that I know they are for a
> fact) who have all the time in the world on their hands to make that
> judgement, and meet the filing requirements. But real people DO have
> money and time constraints. The requirement that BOTH parents have to
> show up for the application, and the fact that most Post Offices only
> take applications until 4:00 makes the coordination between family
> members even worse. Given the choice that we can either pull the
> children out of school, or wait till summer to go through the
> application process adds to the complication of the process.
We did that with both our kids. Last time when all four of had jobs
and they were still in high school.
>
> And regarding the cost should not be a factor, "If you can afford the
> trip, you can afford the passport fee", well, all I can say is that
> people do travel on a budget. That 300+ dollars could make the
> difference between sitting on the ship at the ports, or doing an
> interesting excursion that the kids would enjoy and learn from. When I
> take my cruise in February, we can only reasonably take excursions at
> maybe two out of the 4 ports.
So the next time they go, they have that much more money
because they don't have to do the expenditure again.
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>
> Please note before I get flamed that my mentioned of retired people
> just means that they have nore expendable time on their hands to take
> care of stuff like this.
Not necessarily. |