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To: Cats Pajamas
The big scandal in Michigan should be the floods caused because authorities allowed water to overtop the earthen dams when they had heavy rains.

Here in the Philippines, we have a lot of irrigation dams so we can irrigate for a second crop in the dry season. In typhoons, often they open the sluice gates to prevent dams from overtopping and collapsing.

So why didn’t the governor make sure these dams were safe? Too busy playing politics?

Maybe a local Freeper can clarify this.

278 posted on 05/20/2020 4:04:08 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: LadyDoc
So why didn’t the governor make sure these dams were safe? Too busy playing politics?

I wish Gretchen Whitmer had spent more time shoring up Michigan's infrastructure and less time auditioning to be Joe Biden's Vice President

Maybe the catastrophic flooding in Central Michigan could have been avoided.

🤔— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) May 20, 2020


282 posted on 05/20/2020 4:08:19 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: LadyDoc

I saw a short video yesterday that appeared to show water had bored through the earthen portion of the Edenville dam. And once the earth starts eroding, it will go quickly.

Seems that the problem might have been that there was a growing, and undetected issue with the stability of the soil that made up the earthen portion of the dam.

I don’t know if the second dam downstream, was overtopped or not. Cletus lives around there, and has good information, I’m sure. If he’s not floating downstream right now. Seriously, when the top dam failed, the entire lake had to empty downstream, and the lower dam may not have been capable of holding that amount of water. With luck, it’s not damaged.


291 posted on 05/20/2020 4:20:13 PM PDT by meyer (WWG1WGA, MAGA! The DNC virus is much deadlier than the Wu Han Flu.)
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To: LadyDoc

LadyD, America has suffered such subterfuge from infiltration at every level, local, state, national and in every sector that we were on the very precipice of disappearing.

America disappearing is just to horrible to think of. It is the very people of America that make this country exactly what it is and we are hated by an invisible enemy of many who desire nothing less than our complete destruction.

I believe that Q45 has been showing us for the last going on four years how we (Americans) have been SOLD OUT!

Glad you are here by the way. :)
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Sometimes you can’t TELL the public the truth.
YOU MUST SHOW THEM.
ONLY THEN WILL PEOPLE FIND THE WILL TO CHANGE.
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305 posted on 05/20/2020 4:37:05 PM PDT by Cats Pajamas (RIP - Main $tream Media!)
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To: LadyDoc; AZLiberty

The dams were inspected under the Canadian tyrant.

AZ: Guilt by association is no longer valid.
#dontbeamoosedroolswillinsurrendermonkey


315 posted on 05/20/2020 4:48:51 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (When we look to government to solve our problems, our "rights" become reduced to "privileges".)
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