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    federaleBrendan O'Connor
    8/18/16 8:17am

    Thanks for covering this historic, shitbag flood. It’s been slow going, and we have only just begun to piece things back together. Part of the recovery process is just informational awareness, and we’ve gotten lost a bit in the news fray between dumbass Donald and the Olympics.

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      Kaidogfederale
      8/18/16 8:42am

      I gather you’re in Louisiana... how’s your house?

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      JVBaseballSuperstarfederale
      8/18/16 8:52am

      Our thoughts are with you down there! I’ve donated some to the Red Cross, but is there a better charity you’d like to suggest?

      Also a question- My buddy, who moved down there after Katrina, claims Obama’s response has been worse that George W. Bush’s. Any truth to this? Or just usual partisan nonsense?

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    Endless Supply of CynicismBrendan O'Connor
    8/18/16 8:36am

    This calls for FEMA camps!

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      DoobyOneEndless Supply of Cynicism
      8/18/16 8:42am

      Been waiting almost 8 years for those. I was promised FEMA camp by crazy dirt leg right wingers. I WANT MY FEMA CAMPS!

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      KaidogEndless Supply of Cynicism
      8/18/16 8:43am

      You just lived up to your screen name.

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    gramercypoliceBrendan O'Connor
    8/18/16 8:44am

    Question for people closer to this disaster than I am: isn't an awful lot of this water just going to create a large, moving flood that will flow toward New Orleans, taking out other towns along its path? Or is it just going to sit in place and (eventually) soak into the ground? I'm wondering, even without any more rain is this a flowing disaster waiting to happen downstream, or is it localized where it is?

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      butcherbakertoiletrymakergramercypolice
      8/18/16 8:49am

      As someone who lived through a flood I can’t answer your question, because my flood had the fortune (and strange) result of eroding a berm around a huge rock quarry. At that point, almost all of the flood waters poured into the quarry and the levels dropped incredibly fast—even while it was still raining. Of course, the quarry and all of the heavy equipment was fucked, but that’s what business interruption insurance is for. If that hadn’t happened, the damage would have been much, much worse.

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      Shake Your Boudingramercypolice
      8/18/16 8:52am

      Most of this will flow into Lake Pontchartrain, and from there, the Gulf. It may flood a few more towns along the way, but it won’t affect New Orleans.

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    sfltrack00Brendan O'Connor
    8/18/16 8:13am

    Did Obama make a comment before or after the turn at the 9th hole?

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      Rick Infinity 2: The Rickoningsfltrack00
      8/18/16 8:22am

      um this comment doesnt give the president enough credit here. he was busy working his muslim-weather-machine when this all went down. im not saying obama caused the flooding, im just saying the proof is in hillary’s deleted emails. what happens when you delete an email? email gnomes? someone needs to talk to those guys

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      MBCocksfltrack00
      8/18/16 8:25am

      He did after he filled all three of your mom’s.

      GIF
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    Armageddon T. ThunderbirdBrendan O'Connor
    8/18/16 8:23am

    Next is the long, arduous task of cleaning up, building new, and fudging thousands of vehicle titles to get those submerged cars onto used car lots and into the hands of unsuspecting victims owners.

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      GovtMinionArmageddon T. Thunderbird
      8/18/16 8:26am

      “Dear Mr. Oliver, Do I have an idea for a story for you to cover on Last Week Tonight!...”

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      the 1969 Dodge Charger GuyArmageddon T. Thunderbird
      8/18/16 8:39am

      My thoughts exactly.

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    marmeladeBrendan O'Connor
    8/18/16 11:06am

    Well, I see by the coverage that a lot of white folks were displaced by the floods, some losing virtually everything and many of them without flood insurance.

    So I’m reassured: because one thing I was repeatedly told by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and the kiddies at Fox back during Katrina is that any white people affected by flooding (or any other disaster, natural or manmade) will do just fine, thank you very much, because white people don’t wait around for government assistance or a helping hand from private charity. They don’t perch desperately on rooftops waiting to be rescued and begging for food to feed their children, no sirree Bob. No looting of grocery stores when the food runs out, not for white folks. Nope: they just grab their hammers and their guns and rebuild everything right on down to the Barcolounger with their own proud white hands, so’s you’d never even know anything ever got wet in the first place.

    Thus clearly the president can save a lot of money for the taxpayer simply by diverting federal disaster funds away from the plucky white neighborhoods where they don’t need any help. This is the Year of Trump: the year of the White Man with his European Values and his Sturdy Work Ethic and his wholesome allergy to charity and government support.

    Rage and sarcasm and disgust aside (although plainly it is quite a bit harder to put them aside than it once was, particularly since Republican operatives are already out there trying to turn this into “Obama’s Katrina, Only Worse”), I am truly sorry for all these folks in all the colors, even the ones who are going to be voting for Donald Trump and European Values in November, may God have mercy on their souls. I hope with my whole heart that they get the help they need.

    I see that the president has been swift to declare the worst-affected parishes disaster areas, thus releasing federal disaster funds, and that the relevant agencies of the government are on the ground as they always are, along with the Salvation Army and other charitable organizations—all these incredible, dedicated people from the public sector and private charities as well, doing the best they can in overhelmingly awful circumstances to save lives and ease the pain for everyone who has been shattered and dispossessed.

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      Ed SpockBrendan O'Connor
      8/18/16 8:44am

      If Jindal was still Governor he’d find a way to spin these floods into justification for a new round of tax cuts for the rich and corporations.

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        JedinEd Spock
        8/18/16 8:56am

        Or that God is angry because women should be allowed to have abortions.

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      dogslikecheeseBrendan O'Connor
      8/18/16 11:19am

      Has anyone tried getting flood insurance after this? I’m paranoid as I am in an area near low lying land but technically am low to moderate risk (so not required). It’s scary that mortgage companies don’t require flood insurance for all people with a mortgage as this could happen to any of us. I hope the folks who didn’t have coverage get financial help that they will most surely need to rebuild and/or move.

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        AnastraceBrendan O'Connor
        8/18/16 9:04am

        A friend of my wife said her son lost everything in the flood. Both cars, the house, all their stuff. I guess they are living out of the small amount of clothes they managed to take with them, in a cheap hotel. That fucking sucks.

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          ThatGuy524Brendan O'Connor
          8/18/16 10:23am

          Now...is it time to move out of Louisiana?

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            FarmhandThatGuy524
            8/18/16 11:49am

            See if the French want it back.

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