This was not your typical flood. The rain amounts overloaded the ability of the drainage capability and resulted in lots of areas flooding that had NEVER before flooded. In addition, the rains affected such a large area that the accumulated waters had nowhere to drain. This could have occurred anywhere in the country and would have ended with the same tragic results.
Friday, August 19, 2016
...”Obama irks La. flood victims with memo warning them not to discriminate”....
let state and local officials know that he’s watching to make sure they don’t engage in racial discrimination.
In a 16-page guidance issued Tuesday, the Obama administration, led by the Justice Department, warned Louisiana recipients of federal disaster assistance against engaging in “unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin (including limited English proficiency).”
The guidance’s frameworks “highlight the importance of complying with nondiscrimination requirements of civil rights statutes, addressing the needs of the whole community, and ensuring equal opportunity to access recovery efforts.”
Needless to say, some Louisiana residents were offended, including the American Conservative’s Rod Dreher, who took umbrage at receiving an anti-discrimination lecture from Washington, D.C., as locals struggle to rescue, house and feed their neighbors.
“[E]verywhere you look you can find black folks and white folks loving on each other, helping each other through this crisis,” Mr. Dreher said in a Thursday post.
He referred to the guidance as a “long bureaucratic memo” issued by the “Department of Justice and many other agencies of the executive branch overseen by He Who Cannot Be Troubled to Leave Martha’s Vineyard.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/19/obama-offends-louisiana-flood-victims-me/