Flooding in Louisiana

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While their homes are destroyed and they have lost practically everything that they have and are trying to rebuild their lives, yes, they should get food stamps. This is what the food stamp program is for. Not for those who have never worked a day in their life and want to have food stamps the rest of their life.

Most of the flooded areas are inhabited by industrious people, workers anxious to get their homes repaired and get back to work. Due to the massive destruction, many are going to need some government help no matter how hard they work. But, hopefully, the government will not repeat the very expensive and extremely wasteful programs like Road Home that they adopted after Katrina.

 

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Millions in losses when these are available.

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I have been looking for in depth news on the flooding and there just is not much. Just a few paragraphs or a page here and there for coverage. I walk by the break rooms that have TV and the news is about the latest gossip nonsense or the Olympics. Surely don't want non stop coverage but I just have not seen much at all.

After Floyd flooded eastern NC with a 500 year flood event I noticed that not much was on the national news either. Local news had coverage but national news, not so much.

The best thing will be neighbors helping neighbors. It amazed me when I saw how many people came out to help cleanup. Seem it several times now too so it was not a one off thing either. The Federal response was pretty pathetic as far as I saw...

Later,
Dan

I think the MSM, aka 'national news' is in somewhat of a quandary with this flood. It's in La., a Dem is governor and they can't take a chance and make him or Obama look bad by playing up anything that is not going well with the flood response. If they mention Trump then it calls attention to Obama not being there.

They also can't compare the response of the victims to Katrina or Rita without running a risk of looking racist.

Best they can do is ignore it from their perspective.

TBS

 

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Best they can do is ignore it from their perspective.

TBS

I think your analysis is spot on. Same thing after Hurricane Floyd devastated eastern NC with a 500 year flood. I did not see much of anything by the national press and certainly not much compared to Katrina.

I am seeing some reports about the flooding in LA but they are not head line stories. I finally figured out that part of my frustration with the reports is that they are not showing maps of the flooding. At the end of last week the reports were talking about 40,000 homes being damaged and over the weekend it was up to 60,000. A map would show if that is that in one small area or spread out over a larger area.

Neighbors helping neighbors and people arriving from out of state to help is one of the good things that occur after these disasters. If anyone is near the flood areas, just spending a day helping throw out flood destroyed furniture out of a house is a big help. Both physically and mentally to the person(s) affected by the flood.

Later,
Dan

 

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We got around 10" here in the central region but nothing like down south.In April we had record flood waters as well and heard nothing about it. Sections of state highway were washed away in 30-40' intact pieces... I saw 4' of water in places I would've previously bet a months salary it would never happened.I can tell the grandkids one day about me riding a jetski in the pastures.Worst anyone ever seen.