The National Guard? No, no--Blackwater.
Because when everything you own is under 10 feet of water, you don't want a civil engineer or somebody who can organize an emergency shelter, or even transportation to your cousin's place a few counties over. Naaah, you want a private army of overpaid psychos brought in under a huge no-bid contract who deal with every contingency by threatening to shoot. Yeah, that's the ticket.
They're all pikers compared to the Corp of Engineers. We're talking trillions over more than a century.
The Corp exists to sling pork. Transportation and agri-industrial sectors get first crack. Keeping the population dry is nice but not mission critical.
But then they're selling flood control in the third largest drainage basin on the planet...to idiots who insist on moving back in even after they've been inundated.
But then they're selling flood control in the third largest drainage basin on the planet...to idiots who insist on moving back in even after they've been inundated.
I read elsewhere that City Hall and some courthouses are build on an island in the middle of the river. That must be beautiful most of the time, but Mother Nature still, sadly for many folks today, has the upper hand.
Us two-leggeds are still demonstrating a lot of hubris in the face of nature, to our continued detriment. :-(
It's all god's will.
Remind me not to vote for the bastard next time an election comes around.
~, That area is America's breadbasket. We need people there to farm that land, unless you like importing every morsel we eat or starting a canister garden on your lawn. So it's in our interest to keep farmers there. Oh BTW, don't we realize a lot of people stay after a disaster or go back because there's nowhere else for them to go, and no jobs for them even if they did go somewhere?
Katrina II. Without scary black people even to stir some interest.
All those who want cornbread for Thanksgiving, stock up now. By November both corn and gas will be considered blue chip investments.
Breaking: Des Moines Levee breaches, Total Evacuation Hotlist
Breaking News from the Heartland...more to come...
i keep waiting to hear a tv preacher explain what the country folks of iowa did to piss god off like this.
probably they weren't hateful enough to gay people.
yeah, that's it, jesus was crying big old rain tears because they weren't hateful enough.
Yeah, it'd be interesting to see what Magic Thinking Spin some of these big-ass preachers can apply to this. They didn't have any backwardness about it with New Orleans and 9/11, did they?
Bush-think: water isn't wet, rain doesn't fall, and Iowa isn't flooded.
There! No emergency.
*putting cornmeal on the grocery list for tomorrow*
Jack and Jill Politics was talking about the rain hitting the Midwest...about the possibility that the Katrina effect is now swinging around and knowing no color, race or affiliation.
http://www.jackandjillpolitics.c...sman-
folks.html
http://
www.jackandjillpolitics.c...conference.html
Me, I am here in Wisconsin, where 29 counties are under a state of emergency and houses fall into faux lakes near the Dells resort. I am about a black or so away from Lake Mendota, which some local civil engineers say is at dangerously high levels not just because of the rain but because everything, including sewage, is being sent into the lakes. I took a walk over there yesterday, and frankly, it's nearly at flood stage. They've cancelled speed boating and regattas there because the waves might spill over into the park and thus the street.
Hardier souls still fish there, although there is a current prohibition against fishing and bathing in its polluted waters. The same goes for Lake Monona.
We had rain today and there's going to be rain tomorrow, and there seems to be a lot of la-dee-dahing among local officials...this area is half chi-chi and the other half is split between not quite chi-chi but nearly so and middle-class. If anything happened to their precious property values (especially when some cannot sell their houses because of the current crisis), I swear there would be hell to pay.
Understand that this is nothing like New Orleans, but two other cities, including the capital of the state underwater? Sheesh. Last thing I heard, people were already screaming at FEMA.
Before Bush came in, people rushed in at crisis situations regardless. For eight years, it's been whether a state has a Republican governor or not or was a red state.
This shyt has got to stop in January, 2009.
Excuse me:
a black or so away from Lake Mendota
Yeah, I am the only one around for blocks, too.
BTW, re Corps of Engineers: we need an entire revamping of our infrastructure, some of which is about as old as my mother and stepdad. Which is saying more than just a couple of decades.
blksista:
Is Lake Mendota almost lapping up onto the Lakeshore Path on the university campus?
God, I miss Madison. And if you know anything about southside Milwaukee, you'll understand why.
damm we got a lot of cheese heads here...any word from northenr IL...how is the fox and the des plains doing?
Is Lake Mendota almost lapping up onto the Lakeshore Path on the university campus?
Hey, haven't been around THERE to know. I'm in the Sherman/Baldwin area. I think, however, that they did have their annual summer concert over that way regardless of the rain...
I'm in northern Des Moines County/southern Louisa County in SE Iowa, and we just today saw the first major bit of National Guard presence today. The counties, the local levee board and churches have been doing the majority of the work.
They've had the local high school kids running sandbags to the levees. In 1993, during the last major flood, we weren't allowed anywhere NEAR them.
The difference? We had the National Guard here then. But that's a different time.
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