While it is a tragedy and my heart felt sympathies go out to the children's family, there was no need for the two children, ages 2 and 4, to have died.
The story relates how a woman and her two children fled their home amid rising waters. The mother was trying to reach her sisters house. As the mother was driving along in her SUV water swept through and washed her children from her arms.
The story goes on to relate how she left the vehicle and searched throughout the most empty neighborhood for her children to no avail. She flagged down an emergency vehicle and a search party was organized. When her SUV was found child safety seats were found.
What is it about people that makes them think that they can drive through water? What is it about people that makes them think that safety measures are for others? What is it about people that do not allow them to ask for help before a situation gets too far out of hand?
First the woman should have recognized the fact that if the water is rising in her home it is rising in the streets and if it is rising in the streets it is unsafe to drive. Secondly, she should have called for aid before she needed help for the lost kids.
Thirdly, if no help could be given and no other alternative could be found and her only chance for survival was to flee in her vehicle, the children should have been strapped in their car seats. The very last place they should have been was where they were--in the arms of an operator of a motor vehicle.
This is just an example of the many ways people lose their lives or cause the loss of life of others through stupidity. As much as people like to think they are rational intelligent thinking individuals, life shows over and over again that we are emotional reactionaires unless forced to be otherwise.
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