"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 2:42:53 PM UTC-10, Cheri wrote:
>> "dsi1" <dsi1ahoo.com> wrote in message
>> ...
>> > On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 8:54:31 AM UTC-10, Cheri wrote:
>> >> "dsi1" <dsi1yahoo.com> wrote in message news:10064770-c3ab-41f6-8072-
>> >>
>> >> My in-laws live in Oroville. When I visited the place several years
>> >> ago,
>> >> it
>> >> was a nasty scene. The area was an ugly black and brown tinderbox just
>> >> waiting to explode and the lake was drying up. Of course, we visited
>> >> the
>> >> dam. Evidently, it's mostly a big pile of dirt. Beats me how that
>> >> works.
>> >> I
>> >> haven't heard anything to suggest that the situation is under control.
>> >>
>> >> =====
>> >>
>> >> It is hard to trust when they said on the original spillway failure
>> >> that
>> >> they had not walked it to inspect, but looked at it and didn't see a
>> >> problem. Really? You can tell by looking? Then they said that in 2007
>> >> the
>> >> emergency spillway was recommended to be concreted but the state
>> >> declined
>> >> to
>> >> spend the money for that, so hard to know who to trust. They said it
>> >> was
>> >> the
>> >> tallest dam in the US, which I did not know and I would not like to be
>> >> living under that threat at any rate, but the headline in the paper
>> >> today
>> >> was that the threat had passed and people could return home.
>> >> Personally,
>> >> I
>> >> would wait awhile, but it was a nightmare for the evacuees with
>> >> traffic,
>> >> price gouging etc. also burglary and looting going on.
>> >>
>> >> Cheri
>> >
>> > My brother-in-law was spending his time helping people evacuate. My
>> > sister-in-law is watching 8 foster kids. My niece has 30 people staying
>> > at
>> > her house. These guys really step up to the plate. I did not hear about
>> > the looting. That's nasty.
>>
>> =======
>>
>> They downplayed it at the time, which was a good idea, but then the
>> stories
>> started coming out after. I was really ****ed at a couple of the motel
>> owners that were kicking some evacuees out early and raising prices,
>> which
>> is totally against the law in emergencies, so I hope they are all over
>> social media with the names of the businesses.
>>
>> Cheri
>
> Businesses got it tough these days with social media being able to spread
> disparaging words in such a rapid and widespread way. They might deserve
> it but they might not. Mostly they have to tiptoe through mindfields.



That is true, but businesses that price gouge during emergencies deserve it.

Cheri