Half The Country Underwater, Yet Not A Quarter of the Whining From New Orleans Still Today

That's my opinion watching this unexpected and widespread flooding, occurring everywhere in the Midwest from Minnesota to Ohio to Texas and then back to Minnesota again.

Yet no outcry and massive whining coming from the hundreds of thousands of residents of these collective cities as was coming from New Orleans and Katrina and still is years later .

You watch these cities rebound and rebuild themselves in a matter of months, whereas NOLA is still waiting for George Bush and we the Taxpayers to come down there and fix all the problems created by mother nature those few days a while back.

Pretty sad I'd have to say how dependent that community is and was on the government to fix all their problems for them, instead of pulling up the old bootstraps and just taking care of business.

We don't see Hollywood and the loony libs rushing to the rescue in any of these Midwestern communities either do we in the case of these floods? Strangely no. Anyone wonder why that is...probably not, as we Midwesterners don't need their fake, half skin deep, "cause celeb of the day" condescending attitudes around here anyways.

Besides, Sean Penn is too busy having lunch with Hugo Chavez to worry about middle America during a crisis in the first place.

Not to mention the looting and who could forget this guy, as we don't see any of these kind of shots coming from the floods here do we for some reason as we did during Katrina where even the police got in on the action.....

Midwest Flooding Death Toll Reaches 22:

My Way News - "CAREY, Ohio (AP) - At the end of a long block of flooded homes, Mike Watkins used a generator to try to pump 4 feet of water out of his mother's basement. But he was clearly in a losing battle. In front of his house, kids rode bikes through the knee-deep water and residents took pictures of their water-logged neighborhood as more water poured in from the overflowing Spring Run Creek at the center of the village. 'At least the kids are having fun,' Watkins said.

Quite a contrast to the reporting from New Orleans huh, At least the kids are having fun, instead of Where the hell is George Bush and FEMA......... boo hoo hoooo. Everybody around here and elsewhere the best that I've been able to tell is just getting it together and getting it done. Big culture difference one would have to say isn't it?

The residents of Carey are the latest victims of storms that have buffeted the Midwest and Plains since the weekend, leaving roads flooded, schools canceled and sending rescuers out on boats."The death toll from two storm systems - one in the Upper Midwest and the remnants of Tropical Storm Erin in Texas and Oklahoma - reached 22 on Tuesday when searchers found the body of a man tangled in a tree near Lewiston, Minn.

In Wisconsin and Minnesota, thousands of homes were damaged: A preliminary survey by the American Red Cross in Minnesota identified about 4,200 affected homes, including 256 complete losses, 338 with major damage and 475 that are still inaccessible, said Kris Eide, the state's director of homeland security and emergency management. continued

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