Life after ice storm dire, getting worse in spots (WHERE'S OBAMA...is this his Katrina?)

AP ^ | Jan 30 2009 | BRUCE SCHREINER

[blueyon]

MARION, Ky. – In some parts of rural Kentucky, they're getting water the old-fashioned way — with pails from a creek. There's not room for one more sleeping bag on the shelter floor. The creative are flushing their toilets with melted snow.

At least 42 people have died, including 11 in Kentucky, and conditions are worsening in many places days after an ice storm knocked out power to 1.3 million customers from the Plains to the East Coast. And with no hope that the lights will come back on soon, small communities are frantically struggling to help their residents.

[blueyon]

My heart goes out to those effected by the ice storm. No heat or electric. People have died. My question is where is the outcry, where is the news media's moment to moment coverage of this story? Where is their help?!!! How come Obama is not addressing this? How come he has not gone there yet??? What is FEMA doing, or not doing????

[Da Coyote]

Answer: Help involves knowledge of electricity. To liberals, electricity - since proper design requires the use of mathematics - is magic.

[blam]

Obama hates White people!!

[Feline_AIDS]

WHOA... I didn’t know that 42 people had died. Barry should command the southern winds to melt the ice.

[Tidbit]

It’s George Bush’s fault! /s

[GeorgiaDawg32]

if a Republican was in office instead of “the one”, 42 people dead would be 24 hour headline news on all stations along with demands for FEMA, etc..

however, since “the one” is in office, this is relegated to a “non-news” story..

[tobyhill]

I missed a day of work because of the ice here in the Dallas area. Where is my $2000 debit card?

[WellyP]

I think Kentucky is a RED state!

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Obama’s response to this is worse than Bush's response to Katrina.

And, by the way, Bush wasn't responsible for the response to Katrina, as it was particularly located to one state. It was the state and city officials who had a responsibility to the citizenry.

This, however, affects an entire, multi-state region.

Instead of giving money to ACORN and for condom distribution, the feds should be spending that money on disaster relief. But, of course, this disaster is affecting the midwest, the red-staters, so eff them, they Dems appear to be saying.

[EnglishOnly]

BHO is too busy to Help these people..........

After all , He’s throwing a party at the White House this Evening and HE is just too busy to Help those people that are freezing without power.

Change you can Believe in?

Chump Change
Barry says “thanks for your vote .......CHUMPS!”

[popdonnelly]

Look on the bright side. They’re lucky they’re not dependent on wind turbines for their electricity. Anyone think those would work after an ice storm?

[TomGuy]

The creative are flushing their toilets with melted snow.

Where do these so-called reporters come from?

Where does he think cities get their water? What, they manufacture it in those big water towers? [/s]

Winter snow melts in spring, and runs in to creeks and rivers and lakes. Cities pump their water from those creeks and rivers and lakes.

And guess what -- people use that water, which is melted snow and ice, to flush their toilets.

[wombtotomb]

maybe we can get shepard smith down there......” OH THE HUMANITY”....../s

Prayers to those families, same as I did for those in Katrina. But the reason you don’t hear about this is because many more there are taking PERSONAL responsibility for their safety and well being, not waiting on gubbmint help.

[TomGuy]

I missed a day of work because of the ice here in the Dallas area. Where is my $2000 debit card?

I was gonna got down to the Hwy 412 overpass and sit and wait for Shep and Foxnews, but it was too dang cold.

[vetvetdoug]

The folks in NE Arkansas are also taking a hit. Just North of here in Obion County, Tennessee, it is just as bad. I am just thankful that it went 80 miles North of here...the last time we had an ice storm we were out of power for two weeks and it was cold. There is some relief in knowing one has an old time fireplace and a constant source of water.

[FrankR]

"Obama hates White people!! "

Which goes a long way in proving he's a physco...all of the black people (father, step-father) in his life deserted him...the only people who stuck by him, nurtured him, and raised him were the white members of his family, mother and grandmother.

But somewhere along the way he was throughly "wrighted" and has little use for whites...UNLESS...he can use them in some way to further his own socialist agenda...like most of his cabinet.

[AD from SpringBay]

It is time for Sean Penn and other members of the Film Actors Guild to strap on their snow shoes, grab their guns, and go rescue some people.

[a real Sheila]

If Obama’s FEMA cannot handle this, what in the world are they going to do WHEN a big hurricane strikes?
My guess, if one hits a “mostly white” populated area or a “red voting” area, those folks can expect NO HELP.

[a real Sheila]

Well, Kentucky IS a RED state, so...no help from this administration!

[Twinkie]

The 42 people who have died - what percentage of them were white? I mean, Obama certainly seems sort of - I don’t know - unconcerned about this disaster. Is it that he HATES white people or something?

I agree - WHERE’S FEMA? WHY IS “O” NOT THERE YET? - WHERE IS THE HELP? - Is “O” trying to kill white people?

Uh - these people are “taking care of business” themselves. They’re actually melting snow to flush their toilets - AND doing whatever they have to in order to survive instead of squawking about the gubmint not taking care of them.

I’m frankly glad for those who were entrapped in the corrupt socialist system in New Orleans having escaped to pursue better lives.