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Midwestern Floods
« on: June 13, 2008, 06:55:35 PM »
Anyone want to bet that Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan and Indiana recover and get back to normal before NOLA does, even with NOLA's 3 year "head start" ??
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Re: Midwestern Floods
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2008, 09:04:18 AM »
Depends on how you define "normal"  undecided
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Re: Midwestern Floods
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2008, 09:52:26 AM »
Quote from: Tallpine on June 14, 2008, 08:04:18 AM
Depends on how you define "normal"  undecided

Resembling somewhat the way things were prior to the natural disaster.  Yes, I realize that NOLA was waaaaayyyy past normal prior to Katrina.
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Re: Midwestern Floods
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2008, 10:56:21 AM »
I live in Iowa, unfortunately people have decided to loot here, not yet with the flooding but there has been some incidences after tornadoes that have occurred since Katrina. Before Katrina looting was unheard of here. In the floods of 93 there was no reported looting.

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Re: Midwestern Floods
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2008, 09:29:56 PM »
Hey Charby, can you guys send that rain out to California?  We're on fire here.
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Re: Midwestern Floods
« Reply #5 on: June 14, 2008, 10:26:04 PM »
Michigan?  We're flooded in Michigan?

I travelled across a good bit of the state today and the worst I encountered were a couple washed out dirt roads. 

Guess I'm out of the loop.
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Re: Midwestern Floods
« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2008, 12:17:19 PM »
Quote from: Antibubba on June 14, 2008, 08:29:56 PM
Hey Charby, can you guys send that rain out to California?  We're on fire here.

I told it to go to California, maybe it will.

Don't bitch if it starts flooding out there.


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Re: Midwestern Floods
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2008, 01:19:50 PM »
I just want to know where all the celebrities are?  Where are the calls that GW Bush hates white Iowan farmers and had this done on purpose?

Where are the activists calling for FEMA to be disbanded because they are racist and the relief took too long?

Oh, just some floods for some white guys, no one will even notice.

For a few months that is, when corn prices skyrocket.  Then that too will be a conspiracy.......

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Re: Midwestern Floods
« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2008, 06:10:59 PM »
Quote from: TexasRifleman on June 15, 2008, 12:19:50 PM


For a few months that is, when corn prices skyrocket.  Then that too will be a conspiracy.......



futures already have, over $7 IIRC

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Re: Midwestern Floods
« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2008, 06:25:17 AM »
Mom called the other day, looks like my Dad got looted when a sandbag levee broke and some folks showed up to help him get stuff out of the shop. Some of the folks who showed up to help just walked off with items instead of placing them in the vehicle which was moving stuff to higher ground.

I really think that looting should be a shootable offense, justified homicide.

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Re: Midwestern Floods
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2008, 06:30:04 AM »
Wow, Charby - that's really low  angry

(the looting, I mean - not shooting them for it Wink )
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Re: Midwestern Floods
« Reply #11 on: June 20, 2008, 06:30:42 AM »
Quote from: Charby on June 20, 2008, 05:25:17 AM
Mom called the other day, looks like my Dad got looted when a sandbag levee broke and some folks showed up to help him get stuff out of the shop. Some of the folks who showed up to help just walked off with items instead of placing them in the vehicle which was moving stuff to higher ground.

I really think that looting should be a shootable offense, justified homicide.



At one time, it was.
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Re: Midwestern Floods
« Reply #12 on: June 20, 2008, 07:25:34 AM »
Hopefully your dad remembers them at a later time.
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Re: Midwestern Floods
« Reply #13 on: June 20, 2008, 07:58:20 AM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on June 20, 2008, 06:25:34 AM
Hopefully your dad remembers them at a later time.

It was my dad's place of employment but I'm sure if see the folks again the cops will get a phone call. My dad gets so pissed off about how my hometown has gone down hill in his lifetime, not this has happened so he'll be a bigger curmudgeon until he retires in 2 years and moves away.



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Re: Midwestern Floods
« Reply #14 on: June 20, 2008, 08:36:51 AM »
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Re: Midwestern Floods
« Reply #15 on: June 20, 2008, 08:42:29 AM »
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Re: Midwestern Floods
« Reply #16 on: June 20, 2008, 09:21:06 AM »
Quote from: BridgeWalker on June 14, 2008, 09:26:04 PM
Michigan?  We're flooded in Michigan?

I travelled across a good bit of the state today and the worst I encountered were a couple washed out dirt roads. 

Guess I'm out of the loop.

There were some tornadoes and minor flooding, but not near as bad as elsewhere. 
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