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Deadly flash floods hit polygamous community in Utah
The Telegraph ^ | 9/15/15

Posted on 09/15/2015 6:04:19 PM PDT by markomalley

Search-and-rescue teams trudged through muddy streambeds on Tuesday in a small polygamous town on the Utah-Arizona border, looking for people who were missing after a devastating flash flood that killed at least 15 people.

With more rain in the forecast, men in helmets were perched at high points along the route, watching carefully for any more floodwaters that could suspend the search in Hildale, the secluded community that is the home base of Warren Jeffs' polygamist sect.

Only one person was still missing Tuesday afternoon out of 16 people - three women and 13 children - who were in two vehicles that got smashed Monday by a wall of water and carried several hundred yards downstream. Authorities had not identified the dead. Three people survived, all of them children.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: 1haremgone; flooding; ldschurch; polygamy
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To: Fiji Hill

They are all on welfare too. The extra wives have babies and are classified by the government as unmarried.

Polygamy is very ugly in practice.


21 posted on 09/15/2015 9:12:21 PM PDT by sunrise_sunset
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To: b4its2late

LOL. “Bigamy is having one too many wives. Monogamy is the same.” Oscar Wilde.


22 posted on 09/15/2015 9:19:18 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: glock rocks
Let’s have a hearty FR yuk-it-up that these women and children were caught up in an epic flash flood and swept to their death. Ghouls.

Seems to be the "new Catholic" way - they would love to be able to direct God's Wrath and destroy all those they consider "unworthy". I think many of them would be quite surprised at who He considers unworthy.

They seem to think they are God's enforcers and are working hard at plying their trade.

23 posted on 09/16/2015 3:29:08 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: glock rocks

[My understanding is they were off the side of the road observing and a wall of water swept them downstream. This was no ordinary storm]

They live in the west and they were never taught about flash floods? The first thing I was taught when I moved west was “stay away from the washes at all times”.


24 posted on 09/16/2015 3:38:06 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: o-n-money

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, good point. I refer to them as Out-Laws... LOL


25 posted on 09/16/2015 5:49:26 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: BlackVeil

LOL


26 posted on 09/16/2015 5:49:43 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: b4its2late

And the difference between in-laws and out-laws?
Out-laws are wanted.


27 posted on 09/16/2015 6:14:59 AM PDT by o-n-money (We should rename California to Newer Mexico.)
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To: o-n-money

LOL


28 posted on 09/16/2015 9:03:19 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: markomalley

The poor kids and the terror and suffering they must have gone through.

Breaks my heart. :-(


29 posted on 09/16/2015 3:51:35 PM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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