http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/26/rita.apartment.deaths.ap/index.html
Very tragic. I thought you were exaggerating. I see you’ve had experience.
This quote kind of got me though: “He was a good daddy,” Haynes said, fighting back tears. “He was always in our life. He didn’t deserve this.”
How does “deserve” come into this? He put the generator in the house. It wasn’t an accident or a random act of violence.
Terrible.
I’m not sure what the message is here. We can feel sorry that this happened, but these generators have warnings all over them not to run them in enclosed spaces. Also, there is the fact mentioned that they could not find help anywhere and were forced to return before the power was restored because they were running out of cash. Does that mean that the people in the receiving state are bad people, or that they were just too overwhelmed with the millions of refugees that swarmed out of Texas? I don’t doubt that we will hear more stories like this as the fallout of Rita and Katrina continues.
djm
I think the message is simple. Don’t run gasoline engines in enclosed spaces.
Yes, it’s sad that he didn’t get any assistance but that isn’t what caused him to put the generator indoors.
What saddens me the most is the kids that died because of a bad decision and those that have to live with the aftermath.
It may have been suicide…
I wonder sometimes about these generators. The last few times we had major power outages in this area, there power company kept putting out warnings about people who had generators wired into their house wiring. Evidently, that can create live wires in areas in which the power company workers assume there are no live wires. In fact, a power co. worker was killed this year in Montgomery, Alabama as a result of that very problem.
Yeah, we’ve had warnings about the live wires problem, too. I don’t know what they’re going to do about that.
Until a few years ago, generators were not feasible. Nobody had them. Now, everybody wants one, thinking they couldn’t survive a day without electricity.
You thought I was exaggerating, Fly? Not at all. I was just reflecting on what happened here last year . . . again and again and again (we had 3 storms in a row).
Plus, I’d just come back from Fire & Safety at the hospital, at which they had read off the list of deaths due to various causes during last year’s storms and the one up in North Florida earlier this season.
(I wasn’t exaggerating when I mentioned how people wipe out the entire bread aisle and fight over the last remaining loaf, either.)