Posted on 02/27/2017 5:07:46 AM PST by davikkm
Some officials failed to act until people were scurrying to flea their homes without any notice. They had no time to get anything packed, but did grab their pets…thank God for that, as pets are a vital life force for humanity. Whether they realize it now, they can make a home from scratch with their family, pets, and the kindness of strangers. Praise God for the Red Cross and other charities. We must stress the kindness of strangers in this world of a failing humanity, as those strangers represent the best in us.
Nguyen and his family had spent all Sunday in a daze, discarding by the armload his soaked, muddy possessions, when a helpful volunteer held up a waterlogged, red photo album, as thick as an old phone book. “Do you want it?” volunteer Alan Supan asked. “Toss it,” answered a relative helping Nguyen discard his hopelessly damaged possessions. In this Rock Springs neighborhood of apartments and immigrants along Coyote Creek that flooded knee-deep last Tuesday, people who lost everything were coming to terms with what that really means. “What am I going to do?,” said Nguyen, who is in his 70s. “I have nothing left.”
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I hate when I have to flea my home
I hate when I have to flea my home
Dad-gum cooties, I really HATE it when I have to be de-flea’d.
That’s better than having to termite your home.
I hate that this happened to these folks, but didn’t they have several days notice that flooding was highly possible if not imminent?
Seems like there was enough time to get your most valued possessions to higher ground...just in case
Imagine instead if they had had to FLY their homes: worse.
stealthier, too.
What happened, did the dam break or something?
to flea their homes
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To flea your home is to infest it with fleas
To flee your home is to leave in a hurry
Does no one have editors anymore?
Or are the editors as illiterate as the authors?
Didn’t see anything on the Fake News.
Maybe it was a real flood since they didn’t report it.
Occam’s razor would assume the latter is correct.
“...flea their homes...”
Flea?? You mean flee? What kind of idiots write these things?? Dumbed down schools are the best!
They had to flea their homes, could make a new one from SCRATCH.
It's a blog. Being a dumbass is a requirement for bloggers.
Reliance on spell check vs brain = fail
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the fly, “let us flee!”
“Let us fly!” said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
Ogden Nash
LOL... Love it.
Was this regarding a breached levee that resulted from the increased flow?
The cow is of the bovine ilk
One end is moo
The other milk
Ogden Nash
I don’t know, but we have an epidemic of misspellings and grammar errors these days. I am concerned by this more and more.
Now that is clever! I think you just made my day a little brighter! Thank you!
They may have to de-flea their homes after the critters haven’t had blood for two weeks.
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