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Stupid Question about our recent Midwest Flooding?
6/19/08 | Gillmeister

Posted on 06/18/2008 4:31:56 AM PDT by Gillmeister

The recent devastating flooding in our heartland raised 1 question in my mind........


TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Weather
KEYWORDS: floods
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To: Saundra Duffy

We here in Cedar Rapids had the infrastructure in place. Flood stage here is 12 feet. We’d seen 20 feet back in the 1920s. The infrastructure was prepared for 22 or 24 feet of water. That seemed like ample margine.

Last week, we crested at 30.5 feet. We flooded beyond our 500 year flood plain - and we’d never had a 100 year flood.

So shut up about what the state and local government should have done. They did their job. When the water came down, local officials and volunteers did theirs. In some places, it wasn’t enough, so now our job is clean up.

We don’t blame FEMA, Bush, the Fedaral, state, or local government, God, Halliburton, or anyone else. There was just a lot of rain.


21 posted on 06/18/2008 6:10:44 AM PDT by JenB
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To: PowderMonkey
"Reminds me of an old song by the Kinks, “Help Me Now I’m Falling.” -—

"Catch Me Now I'm Falling."

22 posted on 06/18/2008 6:33:29 AM PDT by blam
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To: JenB

Amen...from up by Waterloo/Cedar Falls myslef.


23 posted on 06/18/2008 6:39:54 AM PDT by FlashBack (www.proudpatriots.org/www.woundedwarriorproject.org/www.moveamericaforward.org)
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To: Enosh
Who is America’s best friend?

Hands down, the answer must be England and Australia.

I would add Canada, Japan, and Israel to the list.

24 posted on 06/18/2008 7:22:04 AM PDT by lesser_satan (Cthulu '08! Why vote for the lesser evil?)
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To: Gillmeister

Has anybody spotted Lootie down there?


25 posted on 06/18/2008 7:29:49 AM PDT by lesser_satan (Cthulu '08! Why vote for the lesser evil?)
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To: Gillmeister

Here is Gordon Sinclair’s fine piece on the Americans. All the people in the flooding have our prayers and best wishes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ_okAgAUGE


26 posted on 06/18/2008 7:31:34 AM PDT by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: JenB
So shut up about what the state and local government should have done. They did their job. When the water came down, local officials and volunteers did theirs. In some places, it wasn’t enough, so now our job is clean up.

Amen. Props from Iowa City.

27 posted on 06/18/2008 8:36:26 AM PDT by radiohead (God helps those who help themselves - pray for Iowans and donate to the Salvation Army.)
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To: JenB

Having spent three months on a bagging team during the floods of 1993 I can offer some insight.

At one point as the river was Missouri was rising they told all the sandbaggers on top of the levees to put on life jackets because the levees had become mud and they could have collapsed at any moment. Everyone did so. No one left.

160,000 volunteers bagged, cooked and ran supplies during that effort.It was as close to total war as I have ever seen.

The levees finally blew out when to river crested 14 feet above the sandbags. No one had any regrets, because we gave that river one hell of a fight.

The people of Iowa are putting up a very stiff fight; they are standing their ground and they will recover quickly because of that.

God Bless you Iowa...


28 posted on 06/18/2008 8:37:56 AM PDT by TexanToTheCore (If it ain't Rugby or Bullriding, it's for girls.........................................)
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To: Gillmeister

Isn’t there some kind of EPA rule that says if things are wet for more than 10 days in a year it is automatically declared “wetlands”?

Does this mean we need to evacuate the entire midwest so we can prserve this great national treasure... ie our “wetlands”?


29 posted on 06/18/2008 8:37:57 AM PDT by Grammy (Maxine Waters wants to....sociali.... er ....nationali....er... take over the oil industry.)
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