07/09/19 When I was young, our neighborhood experienced a flood. In our home, water began coming in under the baseboards and my mother started putting things up on the table. The people across the street had it worse as they were downhill from us and closer to the creek that was overflowing. Their home flooded about ¾ the way up the wall I was told. [R/FP/liberty] When the flood receded, neighbors from throughout the area appeared at the house across from us armed with shovels, rakes, brooms, mops, cleaning cloths, buckets etc. They cleaned, they moved wrecked things out of the house and got it into decent shape. My father came home, went into my parents bedroom and came out with a couple of his suits, went to the living room and grabbed up half of my parents' record collection, went by the kitchen and took some pots and pans then took all of that stuff across the street to the neighbors. Many other neighbors did the same. By the end of the day, those neighbors were in pretty good shape. [R/G/human] That is the way things like this were handled then. Not only is it quick but it draws neighbors close. You were disinclined to behave badly because you never knew when it might be you who needs help. [L/G/bureau] Today, the neighbors would ignore the neighbor with the disaster because government takes care of that. Those people would make an appointment to see a bureaucrat, wait in line, fill out lots of forms then wait for two or three months to get a check.
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