Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
I believe it. The photos look like a war zone. What pisses me off if this was some where like Haiti or Jamaica (any third world country) the USA government would be sending every resource available to get the people out, supplies etc. The military should be in their helping. This isn’t a situation that’s going to be over in a few months. Some communities will never rebuild or recover. If people aren’t aware, this is a major tourist area in NC. The impact of loosing the tourism is devastating to the community. Although that’s certainly not priority right now. A friend of ours had Airbnb reservations & owner tried to talk him into not canceling. He only got half the money back and will file complaint to Airbnb. I heard there’s a facebook group for the missing people. I’ve seen several posts about people missing. You are correct the death toll will be devastating. Maybe the plan is to not help these people because they are probably mostly Christian, conservative, gun carrying, hard working people. If it was another Katrina it would be a different story. I hate myself for even thinking this and making it about race. I can’t figure out another reason the government isn’t helping.