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/
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.
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
Simply raise all taxes-problems solved!
Sounds like a great opportunity for the trades. Particularly plumbers.
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.
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.
Chicago is full of schitt?
Hardly a secret.
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.
GEE - THAT STINKS..
Bttt.
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