MidWest Declares State Of Emergency

[HateTheFake]

my car

there wasnt too much damage luckily enough it had about 2 inches of ice on it before the tree hit, however it left a dent in my passenger door, broke my custom antenna, dents and scrapes on roof and back end of car, and scrapped my detail strip. So about 1k to 2k worth of damage

[Liquid Blue]

it didn't break your windshield or crumple the roof of your car?

man I know that shit sucks (sucked since it's past tense) but it could have been alot worse

[HateTheFake]

yea most definitely some people were sleeping in their cars and stuff while their power was out

[DankNuggets]

so i've been getting a lot of chain emails and such that attempt to compare the flooding in the midwest with hurricane katrina and the federal government's responses to each incident.

i found them extremely distasteful in a sort of "one-up" attitude about how midwesterners don't want/need federal support and about how the media isn't picking up story after story about the flooding. They say shit about people still living in government funded hotel rooms, celebrities constantly talking about katrina, looting (or lack thereof), etc.

really wasn't too surprised to see stuff like it after all the crap that got circulated around the election, but i figured at least people would have the decency to not get all indignant over tradgedies like these.


anyone else seeing a lot of this?

[404 Not Found]

Spring is always a guaranteed festival of destruction in the Midwest, from Flooding to Tornado's.

This will be an every year event for all to see and personally I could care less about the idiots that buy homes on flood planes near the Mississippi or MissouriRivers. There was a website that I found a few yrs back of which had documents that showed and detailed the Federal Govt. allowing for residential, farm, commercial & industrial building to be allowed in these floodplane areas. This was allowed in 1981-82 with direct oversite from the U.S. govt at the time.

The U.S. Govt. should declare eminent domain and re-take this land and evict all the people, farms and business that has been established on these land areas of which are a great contibuter to the pollution in out waterways.

Tornado's are one thing, but the assholes living and or working in a flood plane deserve what they get and should not recieve any sympathy or support IMHO.

[Vykromond]

its been known for over a week now that Thursday would be the day that the mild air mass moves in. You have one more day

bump

[ConcreteSchlyrd]

Tornado's are one thing, but the assholes living and or working in a flood plane deserve what they get and should not recieve any sympathy or support IMHO.

I live in a town that got a bit shitrocked by the flooding last summer. It actually fucked with my wedding--the site was moved three times in the two days before the date, before we kind of just threw our hands up and held the ceremony in our back yard. One of my friends from Chicago took nine hours to drive here, rather than the normal four, just because of closed roads. Crazy shit.

Anyway, the point of this post was to talk about the irrational land use issues that people hold on to. Shortly after the waters receded, our county took up a bond issue vote to buy up a few hundred acres of river-and-stream-bordering land to convert them back into natural prarie. You know, the kind of land that has historically sopped up a lot of flood water. The idea behind it, being that if we actually use natural defenses against flood waters, it would lessen the blow the next time around.

Okay, a bit of back story at this point--when the flood hit my town, it completely fucked up half the university, which straddles the river bi-secting both the town and the university itself. Damage (which won't be even halfway repaired until, at best, 2012) is in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The U is trying to shuffle entire departments around, with some departments having no space whatsoever. The entire arts college is running out of an old Menards building.

So back to the story--so the bond issue comes up for a county vote at the same time as the presidential election. If it passed, it would mean a homeowner's taxes would go up something like $20 per year. It seemed like a no-brainer to me, but I was totally floored by the backlash that happened--about 40% of the people we OUTRAGED by it. You know the types: "I DUN NEED NO MUR TAXES!" Of course, some of these same people had their homes completely DESTROYED by floodwaters. But $20 was going to somehow fuck over their entire year.

People are ridiculous.

The issue passed, but by a narrow margin. It was immediately followed by a lot of hollow outrage, which has since died down. Sanity wins again.