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Anonymous wrote:As to the search and the resources, I don't think it unusual. There are lots of reasons other than "giving up" why a search could be called off. Weather is one of them. And, the people who operate these helicopter and sonar, etc, also need practice and this is part of their training, as well. After all, how would they ever be able to find anyone if they didn't utilize the resources.

To the PP who had the friend lost earlier, there could have been many other reasons why it was called off--especially weather conditions.

It is very sad. I, too, find it odd that someone else didn't sound an alert much earlier. But, things happen, others may have been napping, etc.

I’m the PP who lost the neighbor in 2018

Weather was not a factor. It was summer. Calm winds, no chop. Search ended at dark, resumed at sunrise the next day, ended at lunch.

No sonar boat, no choppers, just two DNR boats and one Queen Anne county fireboat, plus many neighbors out in our own boats. “Our” searchers outnumbered the govt searches by probably 3-1. The state put almost zero effort into finding him. We looked on our own for two more days after the govt gave up at noon the day after. Weather was perfect the entire time.

His name wasn’t “Kennedy”. That’s all.

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Anonymous wrote:Exactly. They shouldn’t have been there. A shelter in place order doesn’t mean “go to the family beach house for a BBQ with everyone else”

That’s EXACTLY how yiu spread disease

How dare you say that. They had every right to be there. Sorry that you're jealous that you don't have a second home, but you have no evidence that they were "BBQing with everyone else."

There are a million threads on this topic (should I go to my second home to wait out the pandemic; should we rent a VRBO at the beach now; can we stay at our friends’ beach house during this shelter in place, can I rent an Airbnb for the weekend on the Bay because it’s my birthday) and the consensus is NO. There are even threads criticizing all the people from NYC who fled to the Hamptons or the Catskills. This is exactly the same. People leaving their homes to go somewhere else during the stay at home orders. I get why people do it, but you’re not supposed to, you stay, at, home. They lived in DC and went to Maryland.

They don’t get special consideration because she’s a distant Kennedy. I don’t wish the tragedy on anyone. But it’s pretty shocking people seem to think it was a okay that they were even out there to begin with.

The special consideration is due to her mother as the former governor not as a Kennedy family member. (She’s a close member BTW.).

And yes, lots of people with second homes / cabins considered leaving and did. Whether it was a good, moral, smart, decision is debatable. I didn’t have options, unless I went to my parents in a hotspot most people avoid in good times.[/quote)

Her mother was lieutenant governor, not governor. Big difference