Figured this obscurity would make this recent event pingworthy.
- Did you know? Illinois is home to the only river in the world that flows backwards
[Friday, January 06, 2017 10:23 AM]
Posted on 11/07/2023 4:33:11 PM PST by cll
This past weekend flying to Atlanta, I met a FEMA guy who was on his way to Chicago to continue dealing with a disaster, he said.
"What disaster - I haven't seen anything in the news?", I asked.
He says the news of it are being smothered but that according to FEMA, this is Chicago's second-most expensive disaster in history.
What happened was - he said - that a sewage main collapsed and backed up, flooding hundreds if not thousands of home, building and business basements. That aside from the bio-hazard that represents and its cleanup, thousands of boilers (furnaces?) need to be replaced before winter sets in, but that there's not enough materiel and labor to do it. He talked about bickering involving neighborhood associations, condo and building managers, local and federal politicians further complicating things. They are talking about thousands of people without heating this winter.
New and improved-prices rise.
Sounds like a great opportunity for the trades. Particularly plumbers.
“Probably a local snafu that they are expecting the feds (other states’ taxpayers) to pay for!”
Showing results for last Republican Chicago Mayor, Bill Thompson:
William Hale Thompson (May 14, 1869 – Moh 19, 1944) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931.
Known as “Big Bill”, he is the most recent Republican to have served as mayor of Chicago.
RE: sewage backing into hundreds of homes and business.... They are talking about thousands of people without heating this winter.
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Couple in a mud floor shack made of salvaged doors in Nigeria:
“We can be thankful we don’t live in that hellhole Chicago in the USA. And those are the ones who didn’t get shot by the urban thugs. Maybe we should send them charity money along with our prayers.”
Chicago welcomed all those “refugees” from s__t hole countries. Why not make them feel at home by covering it in s__t.
Rats are running all over too. #1 rat city in the nation.
I have not heard of it. But I will say, in this time and place, to think some entity would try to suppress the knowledge of an event, well, it just isn’t (and hasn’t been for a while) far fetched.
Look at the weirdness with the Nashville PD involving The Manifesto. They had it early on. They knew what was in it. But they suppressed it.
For ideological/political purposes.
So, could this emerging public works disaster in Chicago be true? I wouldn’t rule it out. Doesn’t mean I’ll jump on it, but...if it turns out to be true, I won’t bat an eye.
Would anyone?
It isn’t too hard to imagine walking through Chicago 75 years from now and seeing the remnants of the huge flooded sewer pit and wreckage of the collapse that still remained as it was when it first happened all those years ago, because there was never any money to fix it.
Couldn’t find the money to fix it.
Couldn’t find the people to fix it.
Of course, the most far fetched thing about all this is the concept that you would be walking on foot through Chicago 75 years from now.
Hell.
You can barely walk down some streets in Chicago today on any given weekend, and not have a chance to show up in the weekend casualty lists that come out every Monday.
Thats some serious schitt.
Comsidering how Chiczgo folks come up to my state and help them steal elections here, and bus people up to vote here, I think you can infer my feelings about this.
I actually went down in the tunnels to help specify hardware to seal them. One of the scariest moments in my life.
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Chicago is full of schitt?
Hardly a secret.
Priority one: Make sure there is appropriate housing for the newly arrived illegals so they aren’t affected
Or some Irish lady’s cow?
let me guess. money for every woke project under the sun, but no money for maintenance.
shrugs. you get what you continue to vote for.
Figured this obscurity would make this recent event pingworthy.
A bit OT, but I was traveling (driving) through Central Illinois with my daughter and we went right through the derecho mentioned in the article. Or should I say, in the worst of it that we saw, I pulled off I-57 in front of a semi parked on the shoulder. Sorta used it as a “blocker” just in case there was a multi-vehicle pile-up.
Talk about some mean-ass looking boiling greenish clouds...
Afterward, as we drove on, lot’s of semi’s had been flipped over on (and off) the interstate.
GEE - THAT STINKS..
Bttt.
5.56mm
Unfortunately, the only way for me to access any part of my the article is with a VPN. The restriction is imposed on the server side based on the visitor’s location, which I am confident blocks all of Canada at a minimum. I am confining this reply to the text of the hyperlink that you posted.
Chicago’s backwards-flowing similar to the only river in Canada where is *seems* to flow backwards. Google “backwards flowing river New Brunswick and you should see something within a couple of pages.
The river in Chicago flows backwards due to engineering, and it doesn’t just seem to.
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