http://www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?S=8492557

This town is gone. Had a buddy that lived there for a long time. I told the idiot that it may be a good idea to move away from the river. But guess he was too stupid to do so.

Further down south the downtown area, housing most of the business of the local area was only saved because the levee in Carthage broke.

Bad for Carthage, good for Burlington.

Most of the businesses in downtown were already overrun before the levee broke in Carthage. Lucky for some bad for others.

Luckily for my father. He runs a business down there, and they sandbagged it well enough to hold back the waters till a land excavation company that I do not know the name of, came in for free and started helping business owners and home owners.

How is it that even with all this bad stuff, you do not see widespread looting and crime? Imagine that! The Midwest, people helping each other instead of hurting each other.

A horrid thing, but it shows the good things good people can do!

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This is horrible and my heart goes out to all the people in this area who have suffered.

I'm shocked the democrats haven't blamed this tragedy on Bush...........yet.

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ohmy. ugh.. sucks for all those people.




Thats because it's Obama's fault.

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Atleast, unlike other areas of the nation, they did not spend their levee funds on other projects.

At least we do not have the local authorities rounding up the local populations primary means to defend themselves.

At least this time we have more people from the area that live in the area trying to help each other.

I submitted my leave on Friday. Hopefully I will be away from the board soon, so did five of the Marines in my shop.

This makes me proud!

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The mighty Mississippi River will let other states potentially share Iowa's pain over the next couple of months. All that water has to go somewhere and a lot of that somewhere is all the way down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. There'll be a kind of slow-motion surge or crest travelling down the river until it finds a poorly maintained stretch of levee, at which point another state or states will get to share some of the pain. Let's just hope the repairs in New Orleans have been effective enough, or the state and federal governments could really be embarrassed in a couple of months.

...from possible floods, like in NO area or in Iowa, it's a high time to spend US money for building another military facility in Lithuania. Really, your Bush is a genius.

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Its funny how noone can get to the point of the thread, save a few.

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Clearly god is punishing the midwest for the legalization of gay marriage in California.



*credit to the Daily Show

I was living in Chesterfield, Missouri during the flood of 1993. It was devastating for a lot of people, but people helping people and, for the most part,nobody whining and crying about how the gov't wasn't taking care of them. I also question why people continue to build and re-build in these flood plain areas. They shouldn't be allowed to do so because it only costs ALL of us.

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