Flood Photo:
"SURROUNDED -- A house began breaking up yesterday as it was engulfed by flood waters from the Missouri River in the Hoge Island are of Bismarck, N.D. The family who had owned it for six years left the house on the first weekend in June (Boston Globe June 23 2011)."
You would only have seen that in the printed pos.
"N.D. officials recommend more evacuations as flooding threat to city grows" June 24, 2011|Associated Press
MINOT, N.D. — The threat of flooding for North Dakota’s fourth-largest city worsened yesterday, as accelerated releases from an upstream dam into the Souris River led officials to recommend more evacuations and close a major bridge....
Swollen by heavy rains and snowmelt far upstream, the Souris has risen rapidly since the weekend. Yesterday, officials accelerated the release of water from the Lake Darling dam and said that could raise the river 2 to 3 feet higher than earlier projections....
That's the government trying to manage it, and they always lie.
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Unlike the floods themselves, the AmeriKan media coverage is quite shallow.
"2,500 N.D. homes flooded, thousands evacuated as river rises nearly 4 feet" by Associated Press / June 25, 2011
MINOT, N.D. — The Souris River swamped about 2,500 homes yesterday in Minot, N.D., as it rose nearly 4 feet in less than a day and overwhelmed the city’s levees....
Fed by heavy rains upstream and dam releases that have accelerated in recent days, the Souris surged past a 130-year-old record yesterday and kept climbing.
What, snow melt doesn't deserve a mention this time?
The river was expected to crest over the weekend after growing more than 8 feet beyond major flood stage. The predicted crest was lowered by a foot based on new modeling by the National Weather Service, but it was little consolation in Minot....
PFFFFFFFFFT!
Yeah, some government computer model said something -- the same ones that constantly spew out fart-misting global-warming belches.
Members of the state’s congressional delegation pressed for a federal emergency declaration, which would make people eligible for individual assistance, a step they said was needed for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to set up transitional housing centers....
Money reacting the problem after all the flood prevention money was wasted on wars, Wall Street, and Israel since before Katrina.
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Still nothing more in the newspaper about the nuclear power plant in Nebraska that must be under water by now.
Fire Photo:
"MANNING THE HOSE -- A volunteer firefighter from Harold, Okla., wet down a hot spot yesterday while battling a grass fire in Medicine park. The blaze has burned more than 5,000 acres and destroyed 12 homes in the state (Boston Globe June 25 29011)."
And yeah, remember the fires?
Talk about an obfuscating smokescreen!
Next Day Update: Record N.D. flood appears to peak
Yeah, for now.
"Tornadoes, floods deliver blow to state budgets
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—The tornadoes and floods that pummeled much of the South and Midwest also have dealt a serious blow to struggling state budgets, potentially forcing new cuts to education and other services to offset hundreds of millions of dollars in disaster aid. Missouri and Alabama -- where about 400 people were killed by twisters this year -- could be forced to make a total of about $150 million in cuts because of the violent weather.
But banks and bondholders will be sure to get paid.
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