I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights.
I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights.
Since Wal-Mart and H-E-B is all out of water we had to come to Bastrop to get the things that we need. We need water, flashlights and snacks and stuff.
The officers could see with their flashlights that he was covered with blood, ... That was one of the problems, actually. He was slippery from all the blood, and officers had trouble holding on to him.
I have worked three major earthquakes in my career ... I've always encouraged people to have at least five days of water, food -- canned goods, or food you can add water to (oatmeal, soups, dehydrated foods), flashlights, a battery operated radio, camping gear, a propane portable stove and medication.
We could have sold more of those flashlights. We completely sold out. These flashlights really seemed to appeal to people.
You can see clearly how the terror attacks have affected the American psyche. People are staying more at home, spending more time with the family and eating out at restaurants. At the same time, anecdotal evidence shows that sales of products such as flashlights, candles, first-aid kits has boomed.
There was no power, it was dark, so we treated it like a night search, with flashlights,
Nobody could watch TV or anything. The coaches gave us like 20 flashlights, and we all went out in the hall and shot the s---. It was like a campfire or something -- we sat there and told stories about everything and just talked about life.
There's no one on earth who can give you an informed opinion, ... They have to get flashlights to crawl around and look at the stuff.
People have got to take some responsibility for preparing themselves, ... That means you get yourself three days' worth of food, three days' worth of water you get yourself flashlights, batteries, either a hand-crank radio or a battery-powered radio, a first-aid kit precisely because you know it's going to take 48 to 72 hours to be able to fully service everyone.
Water, plastics, airbeds, sleeping bags, flashlights, batteries we just can't keep them in, ... We're not even close to matching demand.
It's so dire up there, our people are supposed to take their own blankets, flashlights, food and water, anything they need to live on.
We were relying on the basic generator to survive with a light bulb in the middle of the room and a couple of flashlights.
You just can't compare the impact of a large number of sales of flashlights, which may cost 2 to 4, with lost sales, for example, of hundreds of pairs of shoes, each costing 50 to 200,
Those first trips were to Zaire, and we made sure that 100 percent of the donations we received made it to the field, ... Dr. Morgan, an orthopedic surgeon, did 65 operations in a little over six weeks. Dr. Pueda went to a hospital with no electric power and took out a little girl's spleen by flashlight. He saved her life while we all stood around and held Wal-Mart flashlights so he could see.
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