Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Ice-battered Kentucky pleads for help from storm (People Dying by the Dozens In the Midwest)
Associated Press ^ | 1-31-2009 | BRUCE SCHREINER

Posted on 01/31/2009 7:24:23 PM PST by Bell407Pilot

At least 42 people have died in the icy arc of destruction that began in the Midwest. At least nine deaths were reported in Arkansas, six each in Texas and Missouri, three in Virginia, two each in Oklahoma, Indiana and West Virginia and one in Ohio. Most were blamed on hypothermia, traffic accidents and carbon monoxide poisoning from generators.

(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhofema; icestorm; january2009icestorm; news; obama; weather; zerosfault
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-53 next last
To: Bell407Pilot
Kentucky: Mr. President, we need help.
Slobama: Can't I just finish my waffle?
Kentucky: Okay, Mr. President, can you help us tomorrow?
Slobama: Nope, Super Bowl party.
21 posted on 01/31/2009 7:36:48 PM PST by ryan71
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Bell407Pilot

Obama’s presidency has been a total disaster so far.


22 posted on 01/31/2009 7:39:09 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (I can't wait for January 20, 2013")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Bell407Pilot

Obama Dozed, People Froze!


23 posted on 01/31/2009 7:39:17 PM PST by The Mayor ( In Gods works we see His hand; in His Word we hear His heart)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Danae

“OholyO” Love it.

º has as many names as he has relatives including the
illegal ones. Hmmm, does that include him>? Hmmm


24 posted on 01/31/2009 7:46:16 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (Welcome to Obama's America... Be afraid, be very afraid)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Bell407Pilot

What are the local governments saying? Any feedback? I know that the Feds are not called in unless requested....but I wonder what the Govs are saying about the SILENCE.


25 posted on 01/31/2009 7:48:22 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama dozed.....people froze.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: krb

His thermostat is turned up higher than he wants ours to be set.


26 posted on 01/31/2009 7:49:07 PM PST by lonestar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Bell407Pilot

How many people actually died during and b/c of Katrina?


27 posted on 01/31/2009 7:55:18 PM PST by Constitutional Patriot (Socialism is the cancer of humanity.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Bell407Pilot
My thoughts and prayers are with them people as I get ready to go to sleep in my warm bed.

I can not believe the media isn't running wall to wall coverage on this. Maybe reporters would rather be in a warmer storm area like New Orleans and away from bunch of freezing cold Red Stater's.

28 posted on 01/31/2009 7:55:50 PM PST by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Bell407Pilot

First, prayers for those folks and their families. And, prayers for all of those living in the effected area.

Now, WHERE’S THE DAMN OUTRAGE????

Where is the 24/7 coverage by MSM?

Where is Geraldo and Shep on Fox, screaming their heads off, alleging that tens of thousands are being left to die by president Bush.

When made aware of this catastrophe, all our Failure-in Chief does is turn up the heat in the White House! Damn his uncaring incompetence.

Why doesn’t he get off of his white hating black a$$ and fly into the storm and personally help those folks out.... is he a coward or does he know that he’s incompetent?

Are all the victims white and is this just another time when the chickens are coming home to roost for those gun toting bible clinging folks that need to learn to sacrifice?

Two days ago the death toll was reported at 22. Now the death count is approaching 50! How many of those are children?

Will there be an investigation into the White House’s callus, deliberate and negligent failure to prevent these deaths?


29 posted on 01/31/2009 7:59:22 PM PST by Gator113 ("Noli nothis permittere te terere.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Bell407Pilot

This is all happening “on Obama’s watch,” to use a phrase that was pounded into my brain the last eight years.


30 posted on 01/31/2009 8:03:07 PM PST by denydenydeny (People in dictatorships long for truth while pampered, decadent people in the West long for myth.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mamelukesabre

Why dont you come on over here and try it for a spell friend?


31 posted on 01/31/2009 8:07:46 PM PST by mother
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Bell407Pilot

Meanwhile, Obama is throwing a party. Can you IMAGINE the coverage if this was George? Somebody cue Shep Smith.


32 posted on 01/31/2009 8:10:24 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Confidential to MSM: "Better Red than Read" is a failed business model.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mother

Don’t you worry. I’ve experienced plenty of cold. Enough that I’ve got more cold weather gear stashed away than I’ll probably ever use. There’s probably ten sets of long underwear in my spare bedroom. At least.


33 posted on 01/31/2009 8:14:56 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Give me Liberty or give me something to aim at)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Bell407Pilot

Hey, just give it time.... once Hamas re-distributes some of that $20,000,000 Obami just gave them, everything will be just fine. Besides the palestinians were attacked by evil jooooos. We need the rest of the world to love us.


34 posted on 01/31/2009 8:16:17 PM PST by Operation_Shock_N_Awe (Isaiah 6:8)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GOP_Lady
Even I am now starting to wonder why the ONE hasn’t said anything about this.

Come on, we're talking typical white people. Surely he's dispatched the buses.


35 posted on 01/31/2009 8:19:56 PM PST by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: rdl6989; Bell407Pilot

Obama doesn’t have Karl Rove steering the ice storms to attack black people.


36 posted on 01/31/2009 8:20:03 PM PST by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Bell407Pilot

Why didn’t FEMA have their relief trucks in position to roll in right after the storm?


37 posted on 01/31/2009 8:20:30 PM PST by Raster Man
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ryan71
Kentucky: Mr. President, we need help. Slobama: Can't I just finish my waffle? Kentucky: Okay, Mr. President, can you help us tomorrow? Slobama: Nope, Super Bowl party.

No mention of this tragedy by Obama. No flight to the areas to view the situation by our new POTUS. No interest shown to the people. And yet Bush was criticized immediately about the devistation in New Orleans from the Hurricane.

At least Obama could have cancelled his Super Bowl party and sent some of his favorite chili to the people freezing in these areas. But no, he just cranks up the heat in the Oval Office to 77 degrees, and throws a party to boot! And he gets a pass from the media like no other president ever.

38 posted on 01/31/2009 8:26:48 PM PST by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
"Smith said FEMA was still a no-show days after the storm.

"I'm not saying we can't handle it," Smith said. "We're handling it. But it sure would have made life a lot easier."

FEMA spokeswoman Mary Hudak said some agency workers had begun working Friday in Kentucky and more help was on the way. Hudak said FEMA also has shipped 50 to 100 generators to the state to supply electricity to such facilities as hospitals, nursing homes and water treatment plants.

"We have plenty of folks ready to go, but there are some limitations with roads closed and icy conditions," she noted."

Let me get this straight, the emergency crews can't get in because of the emergency? What good are they if they don't have plans on how to mobilize and help people? Sheesh.

39 posted on 01/31/2009 8:26:56 PM PST by buschbaby (still bitterly clinging to the American dream....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: mamelukesabre

Well, so have I. I grew up in Pennsylvania and was stationed with the Army in Germany for 3 years. So I know a thing or two about the cold myself. Things are very bad here right now and you shouldn’t be making light of it. Doing so puts you on the same level as Obama and I would like to think that is not so......


40 posted on 01/31/2009 8:27:34 PM PST by mother
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-53 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson