Bush Declares Major Disaster in Central U.S. After Floods Kill at Least 13

Artorius Castus Blog ^ | 20 Mar 08 | AP

[cardinal4]

PIEDMONT, Mo. — President Bush Wednesday evening declared a major disaster in Missouri and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in areaa struck by severe storms and flooding.

Residents of low-lying towns stacked sandbags or grabbed belongings and evacuated the region after a foot of rain pushed rivers and creeks out of their banks in the nation's midsection. At least 13 deaths had been linked to the weather, and three people were missing.

[cardinal4]

Sump pump still working here. All I need it to do is make it through this flood. I have a new one Im going to replace it with, but I procrastinated and no Im relying on a 30 year old pump. Water level in well is about 3/4 full, or about 2 and 1/2 feet. (There is no float guage to activate the pump, it broke off. So I have to keep checking it every hour to see if needs to be turned on).

The Meramec will see record flooding, and Im wondering about the spring fed Current River. I havent seen or heard anything about that area. Stay tuned..

[Mercat]

God bless. It will be interesting to see how recovery in your community compares with NO.

[TMSuchman]

We are expecting 4-7 inches of global warming up here in S.E. Mi.

I went through the floods of 1993 in St. Charles Mo. and that was a pain in the rear end. I had a Civil Air Patrol Squadron back then. We would take our Cadets to the Emergency Operations Center in St. Charles City [Mo.] with one my Sr. Staff & the rest of us would go out on sandbagging ops & or Search & Rescue Operations. That made for long days of work....

[cardinal4]

Yes, snow across the upper plains to New England. The problem we have here in North STL County, isnt the rivers, its the ground saturation..

[TMSuchman]

Which turns into runoff into the rivers...

Are they getting the new flood gates up now?

[cardinal4]

I think they have opened Lock and Dam 27, which is on the Mississippi, but the worst river flooding is from the Meramec which enters the Big Muddy south of the lock. I dont understand river dynamics enough to know what the CoE will be doing. I do know its very high, both the Missouri and the Mississippi. So, it will be an interesting week..

[TMSuchman]

What part of St.Louis are you in?
We [the Wife & I] used to live in the St. Charles County [ie, St. Peters, Harvester,Ofallon,Wentzville...] usally off of Hwy 94.

[NotChosenName]

Bush IS a natural disaster — a SUPERnatural disaster, actually, since one of the way God punishes His people is by giving them rotten, corrupt, immoral leaders.

John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
Recovering Republican
JLof@aol.com

[Ditter]

John, don’t let the door knob hit you in the butt on the way out of here.

[50mm]

Bush IS a natural disaster — a SUPERnatural disaster, actually, since one of the way God punishes His people is by giving them rotten, corrupt, immoral leaders.

Quite a provocative statement for a noob!

[cardinal4]

Florissant, our development backs up to a bluff on the Missouri. Saint Charles is right over the river from here..

[cardinal4]

What? Are you saying Bush caused the flooding here? Somebody post the “Not this shiite again” guy..

[50mm]

What? Are you saying Bush caused the flooding here? Somebody post the “Not this shiite again” guy..

The heck with that. This guy needs a talking to from the VK's

[Old Sarge]

SNIFF

[50mm]

I think we have NORAD here.

NORAD - NOOB ORCHESTRATING REALLY ANTAGONISTIC DIALOG

[neodad]

IBTZ

[MEG33]

Sniff

[Grizzled Bear]

He posted this thread too.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1988735/posts

My guess is that while he’s trolling here he’s looking for other places to stink up!

[Poser]

More O3.
Buh bye now!

[MEG33]

Prayers you can keep it going. Flooding is so destructive.

[reagan_fanatic]

[GQuagmire]

Do you like kitties?

[50mm]

Anybody know if there are sites similar to "FR", sites where Christians/conservatives can post, discuss? Thank you. - from another thread

John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com

Stinking up the place on your way out, NotChosen? I think you would be more comfortable at DU where the posters suffer from BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) like you .

[TMSuchman]

My Grandparents used to live in Florissant, before they Passed on..

I remember that it was not a bad town back then.

[dynachrome]

As you can see, John, the kitties are gathering. FR is a conservative site, not Republican. However, blaming Pres. Bush for everything wrong is incorrect. Seems like you believe floods and other natural disasters are God's punishment. If you do not survive the zot, you could try Libertypost.org, Though I think you would have trouble there, also.

[50mm]

Get Bent! Ping

[cardinal4]

Who is that guy? Eveyone seems to know him by name...

[dynachrome]

Check his home page. Might be here just pimping his site.

Annoying at best.

[cardinal4]

Yes, I can see that now..

[50mm]

Posting BDS statements on FR is more than just annoying. See post 8.

[dynachrome]

I am more annoyed that he seems to be speaking for God.

[50mm]

I am more annoyed that he seems to be speaking for God.

You're right, of course.

Now it seems that the VK's have got NotChosen's tongue. He's fallen silent.

The VK's are dancing on him in his other thread, too.

[MarineBrat]

You're running all around FR yelling "LOOK AT ME!" It won't last long.

[NotChosenName]

You’re probably right. Telling folks what God says not very popular today — especially among many calling themselves “Christians” — one more reason we’re under God’s wrath. It’s all in The Book....

[50mm]

It’s alive!

[50mm]

You sir are not speaking of God. You are claiming to represent God when you make an absurd statement like:

Bush IS a natural disaster — a SUPERnatural disaster, actually, since one of the way God punishes His people is by giving them rotten, corrupt, immoral leaders.

Care to give some examples of our CIC's rottenness, corruption or immorality?

[Mr. Silverback]

You’re probably right. Telling folks what God says not very popular today — especially among many calling themselves “Christians” — one more reason we’re under God’s wrath. It’s all in The Book....

After seeing this...

Vanity: Oh, No! Obama Pastor Says Something Which Makes Sense!!

...I can tell you that you are majorly mistaken if you think you're speaking for the Almighty. You, sir, are an excuse-maker for people who see bathing stockbrokers and secretaries in burning jet fuel as the Almighty's work. And you have come here to FR, where we lost two of our own to those satanic barbarians, to make excuses for the murderers of our friends.

You sir, speak for Hell.

[Mr. Silverback]

Thanks for serving...I’m building USS Ticonderoga in 1/350 scale. It’ll be a beaut if I do any kind of job on it.

[50mm]

Good catch! This guy is certainly part of the “blame America first” crowd!

[Mr. Silverback]

See post 37 to see just what kind of person NotChosenName is.

Repetitive blog pimping is the least of his offenses.

Mods, please zot this swine into a pile of smoked porkchops.

[50mm]

He also said:

We certainly committed terrorism and murder when we dropped two atomic bombs on open cities in Japan.

This guy needs a ZOT up his Paulbot posterior!

[Mr. Silverback]

Good catch! This guy is certainly part of the “blame America first” crowd!

Thanks, but I have to give mnehrling the credit for the find. It was right on the jerk's in forum page and i missed it.

[mnehrling]

Thanks for posting this. You now have shown me that ‘The American View’ is just another fake Conservative piece of trash site.

[cardinal4]

I pimp my blog here as well. But reading this guy’s stuff....where do they find these people?

[50mm]

Thanks for posting this. You now have shown me that ‘The American View’ is just another fake Conservative piece of trash site.

It's worse than that. This guy is a Paultard, America-hating, God-mouthpiece pretending, loser.

[Mr. Silverback]

We certainly committed terrorism and murder when we dropped two atomic bombs on open cities in Japan.

Hmmm...all you need to do in order to think that is ignore history, and be a raging hypocrite. First, the history, which can be excused because even old fools like John (no fool like an old fool!) may not have been properly educated in WWII history by their screw-alls:

History here.

Then there's the hypocrisy, which can be forgiven (we're all sinners saved by grace, even people like John who carry Al Qaida's water) but not excused. So, let me get this straight: We deserved 9/11 because we killed thousands of Japanese and got involved in fights in the Middle East, but Japan didn't deserve Hiroshima and Nagasaki after starting a war that killed tens of millions of innocent people, many of them civilians dying at the hands of the Japanese military for the crime of not being Japanese?

That's great logic...if you think God wants you to hate America and support pagan murderers.

[50mm]

NotChosen has been

ZOTTED!

[Mr. Silverback]

Pimping a blog is fine, I do it too. However, pimping your blog on FR reqquires being a part of the FR community, which means suporting America and participating in discussions rather than posting and running to try and generate traffic.

Praaying for your situation, BTW. We are probably going to flood here in Freeport soon, but I’m blessed in that I look down on the river from a hill.

[deport]

John you smile is so becoming. Does it indicate you've lost your senses?

[Mr. Silverback]

Yes! Another smooth kill!