I'd say we are losing even if the newspapers have more or less thrown a blanket over them.
"N.D. city spared more damage as swollen river starts to recede; Danger remains; more than 4,000 homes flooded" by John Flesher, Associated Press / June 27, 2011
MINOT, N.D. — The Souris River began a slow retreat from Minot yesterday with no further flood damage in the city, but officials warned that the danger would remain for several days until the highest water passed.
The Amerikan media don't know what f***ing way they are rowing.
A retreat when it is still rising higher (and it's gonna get even higher as that mountain snow melt starts roaring downstream)?
“We’re still at full alert until the water starts going down,’’ said Shannon Bauer, a spokeswoman for the Army Corps of Engineers. “It’s still a war.’’
One AmeriKa put zero resources into fighting.
Another war that isn't going to end any time soon.
The city’s levees were reinforced with plastic sheeting to help them withstand the sustained exposure to high water. Forecasts called for the Souris to fall nearly 2 feet by Wednesday.
More than 4,000 homes and hundreds of businesses flooded when the Souris flowed over levees Friday. Bauer said crews had only dealt with isolated problems since then, including a leaky dike that was reinforced Saturday night....
The corps was sandbagging in Sawyer and Velva, two small downstream towns of just a few hundred people that face crests later this week.
Yesterday, National Guardsmen were monitoring a submerged pedestrian bridge in Minot to make sure it did not break off in the river channel.
The bridge has been trapping debris and could harm nearby levees. Commander David Sprynczynatyk said Guardsmen were ready to pull it out if it came loose.
For some reason Lucky Larry Silverstein and WTC 7 just flooded into my mind!
Problems at Minot’s water-treatment plant prompted the state Department of Health to issue a boil order Saturday. The order also applies to Minot Air Force Base, about 13 miles north of town, which gets its drinking water from the municipal system.
Once the Souris recedes, Minot will begin tackling the job of rebuilding....
More water is on the way and yet we get the agenda-pushing media moving on.
A potential source of aid is the state Legislature, which is likely to consider flood-relief measures during a special session this fall, and the state-owned Bank of North Dakota, which already has a low-interest disaster-relief loan program to help businesses, farmers, and ranchers.
Related: Massachusetts Finally Has a Good Idea
Notice you never read much about such things (or whatever is there is distorted) in your history books and newspapers, 'murkn? Never saw it go anywhere, either.
The state has a $386 million “rainy day’’ fund and $136 million in school aid reserves that could be used for disaster relief if lawmakers agree.
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And if the water is radioctive?
"Water rises near offline nuclear plant" by Associated Press / June 27, 2011
OMAHA — A berm holding the flooded Missouri River back from a Nebraska nuclear power station collapsed early yesterday, but federal regulators said they were monitoring the situation and there was no danger.
As if we are ever going to believe anything this lying government says ever again.
This is really beyond Orwell and Stalin.
The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station shut down in early April for refueling, and there is no water inside the plant, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said. Also, the river is not expected to rise higher than the level the plant was designed to handle....
Yeah, sure, everything is fine.
The berm’s collapse didn’t affect the reactor shutdown cooling or the spent fuel pool cooling, but the power supply was cut after water surrounded the main electrical transformers, the NRC said.
Nothing to see here, don't worry (sigh).
Emergency generators powered the plant until an off-site power supply was connected Sunday afternoon, according to the power district.
NRC chairman Gregory Jaczko was scheduled to tour the plant today. Yesterday he toured Nebraska’s other nuclear power plant, which sits along the Missouri near Brownville.
Then they must be safe, no?
Or are they trying to kill Jackzo?
After all, he has been on the outs since Fukushima.
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Also see: Services held in Fla. for rangers killed fighting wildfire
What you can't see on the web:
"MISSISSIPPI FIRE -- A wildfire raged in the woods surrounding the Jackson County Animal Shelter in Gautier, Miss., yesterday. By early evening, workers were able to get to the shelter and said the animals were alive and in good shape (Boston Globe June 27 2011)."
Nothing on the Arizona, New Mexico, or Colorado fires though.
Next Day Updates:
"Thousands in N.M. town ordered to evacuate in face of approaching wildfire" by Associated Press / June 28, 2011
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Authorities ordered Los Alamos evacuated yesterday as a fast-growing and unpredictable wildfire bore down on the northern New Mexico town and its sprawling nuclear laboratory....
Officials said all hazardous and radioactive materials were being protected.
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"NRC head says plants safe despite flooding" by Associated Press / June 28, 2011
OMAHA — The nation’s top nuclear power regulator said yesterday that both of Nebraska’s nuclear power plants have remained safe despite Missouri River flooding.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman Gregory Jaczko visited the Fort Calhoun and Cooper nuclear power plants in eastern Nebraska to see how the utilities that run them are coping with the flooding. Both plants are on the river’s edge.
The Omaha Public Power District’s Fort Calhoun is the subject of more public concern because the floodwaters are closer to that plant. Nebraska Public Power District’s Cooper plant is more elevated.
Jaczko’s visit to Fort Calhoun yesterday came one day after an 8-foot-tall, water-filled temporary berm protecting the plant collapsed early Sunday. Workers were at the plant to determine whether the 2,000-foot berm can be repaired.
“We don’t believe the plant is posing an immediate threat to the health and safety of the public,’’ Jaczko said.
Omaha Public Power District spokesman Jeff Hanson said that pumps at Fort Calhoun were handling the problem and that “everything is secure and safe.’’
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Yeah, the photo leaves me feeling a lot safer.
