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.
How could you tell?
First I’ve heard of it. Are they blaming the Republicans yet?
Cook County disaster proclamation issued as residents call for answers after flash flooding
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-flooding-fllash-flood-flash-weather/13488474/
Not yet as soon as they do it will be on CNN every hour showing guys in MAGA hats laughing.
Probably a local snafu that they are expecting the feds (other states’ taxpayers) to pay for.
It's a political grifter's dream.
Think of the flow of dirty money through their grasping fingers.
It’s time to play... “FIND. THE. REPUBLICAN!”
No, but I worked on the clean up of the original Great Chicago Flood. So this interests me.
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Poor Chicago. The last thing they need is more folks who don’t pay any taxes but do use the sewer system and other public services.
But that’s exactly what Biden gave them.
Don’t forget to vote straight D again in 2024, Chicago. But only if you want more of the same. A lot more of the same.
Thanks. That sounds about right although the FEMA guys specifically mentioned raw sewage rendering not just furnaces, but everything it touched, in need of replacement (furniture, planking, support beams, walls, carpets, appliances, etc.). Whatever people keep in their basements up there.
Furnaces and boilers out? Think of all the CO2 that won’t be put in the atmosphere!
To accomplish this, city officials formulated a two-pronged strategy: install mechanical devices called inlet restrictor valves and promote downspout disconnection by homeowners citywide. Purchase and installation cost $75 million dollars. This was about a quarter of what traditional sewer system improvements would have cost. Near Chicago, the City of Evanston has installed a similar valve system that has helped reduce basement backup.
A $7.8 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) jumpstarted the Chicago project in 1998
Thanks. That explains a lot.
“No, but I worked on the clean up of the original Great Chicago Flood. So this interests me.”
I remember that: 1992. I was in the insurance industry, and it kept me pretty busy, what with all the insurance claims and lawsuits flying back and forth.
Simply raise all taxes-problems solved!
Simply raise all taxes-problems solved!
And the band played on.....
McDonalds now selling SH*T sandwiches?
As opposed to before?
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