http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/flooding/ en-us Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:57:53 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2215299/posts The Westboro Baptist Church, whose members tour the country protesting at military funerals because they claim America is tolerant of homosexuality, is thanking God for record flooding in North Dakota. “God sent the flood waters to cover the evil people of Bismarck and Fargo, ND, where you flipped off God and raised your hands against His anointed by criminalizing WBC’s gospel preaching against” gays and their supporters, declared a statement released Wednesday by the church, which is in Topeka, Kan. The statement referred to House Bill 1040, a North Dakota state law passed in January 2007 that bars protestors from... Grand Forks Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2215299/posts#comment Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:57:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218193/posts FARGO, N.D. – Weary residents welcomed the Red River's further retreat Monday but faced an approaching snowstorm expected to kick up wind-whipped waves that could threaten the sandbag levees they built to protect their city from a major flood. Engineers weren't worried about the storm's snow because it's unlikely to melt soon. They were concerned, however, that crashing waves could weaken the dikes. The higher the wind speed, the higher the threat, said Jeff DeZellar, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. "The forecast that we saw was 25 mph or more, and certainly that's enough wind to... Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218193/posts#comment Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:30:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2214136/posts Barack Obama sat with a group of reporters yesterday and attempted to exploit the suffering of North Dakota’s Red River Valley flood victims to help sell his bogus energy plan. Apparently taking a cue from Al Gore while heeding Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s advice to "never let a good crisis go to waste," the president deflected a question challenging his proposed cap-and-trade system’s devastating impact on the economy by blaming the flooding on global warming – sort of. Asked about North Dakotans’ concerns that his carbon trading scheme might harm the state’s vital coal and power-generating industries, Mr. Obama... The American Thinker Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2214136/posts#comment Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:25:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168356/posts Flooding Disaster Assistance Available for Disabled VetsSnohomish CountyRelease Date and Time: 01-20-2009 01:55:00 PM       As a result of recent flooding in Western Washington and record snowfall in Eastern Washington, the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) is extending applications for grants under our nationally recognized Disaster Relief program.   The DAV Disaster Relief grants may be issued for the purpose of providing; food, clothing, and temporary shelter or to obtain relief from injury, illness or personal loss resulting from natural/national disasters that are not covered by insurance or other disaster relief agencies.    To be eligible for a... Regional Public Information Network (RPIN) Washington http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168356/posts#comment Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:22:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160713/posts A major winter storm that has tapped into sub-tropical moisture, continues to send wave after wave of rain into the Pacific Northwest, triggering landslides, shutting highways and sending rivers over their banks. A 20-mile stretch of Interstate 5 was closed in both directions just before 6 p.m. tonight. MORE NEWS • Landslides block Washington highway • Vernonia watches flood gauges, ponders fate of new gym floor • Storms hit Washington state, bringing flooding, avalanches and mudslides • Heavy rains could flood swollen Johnson Creek • Small slides, flooding hit coast The interstate was closed at milepost 68 at the eastbound... OregonLive.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160713/posts#comment Thu, 8 Jan 2009 03:51:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2149882/posts Houston Mayor Bill White used a Web video to announce his plan to run for U.S. Senate today.... He cites turbulent economic times, a rising federal deficit and high unemployment rates in the video, saying "this may be an opportunity for our nation to do things it has only dreamed of before..." White previously worked as deputy secretary in the U.S. Department of Energy under President Clinton and as chief executive of the Wedge Group, a Houston-based holding company with interests in oil-field services, engineering and real estate. In comments today, he also highlighted signature domestic issues such as health... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2149882/posts#comment Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:29:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061382/posts Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Up to 12.3 billion bushels of corn are expected to be harvested this season in the U.S., despite the recent Mississippi flooding which inundated many farms in the Midwest. With 600 million extra bushels for the summer harvest, it will be the second-highest corn yield on record, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.Prior to the confirmation of the bountiful harvest, there were fears the Midwest flooding could lead to food shortages and major economic losses for American farmers. Before perfect weather was enjoyed by farmers recently, corn future prices rose to $8 per bushel. On... All Headline News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061382/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:00:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052474/posts <p>Emergency personnel evacuated about 700 people from Ruidoso and Ruidoso Downs early Sunday as the rain-swollen Rio Ruidoso overwhelmed several bridges in town, coursed over roads, damaged homes and stranded dozens of campers in the area.</p> The Albuquerque Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052474/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:01:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047925/posts 2008 Corn & Soybean Yield Expectations In Midwest Study URBANA, Ill. - A new study by University of Illinois agricultural economists projects that average 2008 corn yields could be reduced by 2.9 bushels per acre in Illinois, 3.5 bushels in Indiana, and 6.3 bushels in Iowa due to later-than-normal planting and above-normal precipitation in May. Soybean yields may be down 1.1 bushels, 0.4 bushels, and 1.0 bushels per acre, respectively, in those same states for the same reasons. CattleNetWork http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047925/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:25:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041630/posts Is it really true that the people of Iowa and Wisconsin are morally superior to the residents of New Orleans? That certainly seems to be the attitude of some Wisconsin State Journal readers who send me e-mails on a daily basis crowing about how victims of the floods of Cedar Rapids aren't whining or asking for hand-outs, unlike the victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The messages take the same perspective: When floodwaters drowned downtown Cedar Rapids, people got to work filling sandbags and helping one another. When the residents of New Orleans were drowned in the floodwaters unleashed... Madistan.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041630/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 01:02:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039210/posts WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 1 (UPI) -- A Purdue economist says U.S. corn demand is exceeding supply and, combined with Midwestern flood losses, ethanol production might soon stall. Purdue University agricultural economist Chris Hurt says with higher corn prices, fewer ethanol producers can afford the feedstock. In turn, domestic livestock producers and foreign buyers are finding it more difficult to obtain grain. "Everybody is trying to evaluate how many bushels of corn we've lost because of weather-related damage, what the implications are for prices and who can pay these high prices," said Hurt. Using a similar 1993 Midwest flood as... UPI.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039210/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jul 2008 15:53:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037601/posts The Pin Oak Levee at Winfield has collapsed in Missouri and Muskrats may be to blame for weakening the levee to its last moments of strength. A collapsed levee along the Mississippi River has left a nearby town with a flash-flood warning and imminent danger and raging water. The Pin Oak Levee is a corner levee protecting a small town of about one hundred homes - but according to officials, the water will "ultimately inundate" at least part of the town. The Post Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037601/posts#comment Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:53:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035625/posts What residents were hoping they could avoid has happened in St. Charles. As feared, part of the Elm Point Levee has burst and water is rushing through right now at a rapid pace. Authorities say that the levee burst in two spots around 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday. One of those holes is reportedly the size of a football field. Several homes and businesses in the area are now flooded. Officials say that residents in that area voluntarily evacuated before the breach.    Google map link KMOV.com, St Louis http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035625/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:06:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035372/posts WASHINGTON, June 23, 2008 – Missouri is the latest Midwestern state to see increasing numbers of National Guard citizen-soldiers and –airmen on duty in the face of the region’s worst flooding in 15 years. “Our priority is to protect the lives of Missouri’s residents and their property,” Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt said during a visit to flood-affected areas with National Guard officials. “Then we will focus on recovery efforts.” “As Missourians continue to face the rising waters of the Mississippi, their Missouri National Guard stands beside them in the fight,” Army Maj. Gen. King Sidwell, the state’s adjutant general, said.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035372/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:56:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035209/posts During the week after Father’s Day, I received a number of interesting emails from readers asking me to write about the dearth of looting after the recent floods in Iowa. Specifically, they wanted me to write about the reason there was so much more looting in New Orleans after Katrina hit the “Chocolate City” in 2005. Of course, the problem involves so much more than race – a factor most people are thinking about, even if they won’t admit it... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035209/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:17:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2034694/posts Barack Obama stooped to a new low in his campaign of division and distraction on Saturday when he scraped the bottom of the barrel in his inference that John McCain may be partially to , blame for levee collapses throughout the region. In a prepared statement Obama stated, "I know ... PDOP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2034694/posts#comment Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:34:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034510/posts It was only a matter of time until the mainstream media began ramping up global warming alarmism by connecting flooding in the Midwest to climate change. ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” took a page out of the alarmists’ playbook – connecting natural disasters to global warming, which according to the broadcast is caused by mankind’s use of fossil fuels. The segment, which led off the network’s June 19 broadcast, cited a government report that stated there’s definitive evidence such a link exists. “[T]oday, the administration report draws a clear link between this destructive and severe weather and the fossil... businessandmedia.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034510/posts#comment Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:11:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033986/posts The floodwaters are rising, swamping cities, breaching levees. Tens of thousands are displaced. Many are dead. No, I am not talking about Hurricane Katrina, but about the Midwest United States. As the floodwaters head south along the Mississippi, devastating communities one after another, the media are overflowing with televised images of the destruction. While the TV meteorologists document "extreme weather" with their increasingly sophisticated toolbox, from Doppler radar to 3-D animated maps, the two words rarely uttered are its cause: global warming. I asked former Energy Department official Joseph Romm, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, about the... Seattle P I http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033986/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:39:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033601/posts 6/19/2008 - GREEN BAY BOTTOM, Iowa (AFPN) -- The men and women of the 185th Air Refueling Squadron from Sioux City, Iowa, are teaming with local farmers to maintain the 20 miles of levees, keeping the flooded Mississippi from inundating the 14 thousand acres of homes and farmland here. The river is flowing 23 feet over flood levels and 20 feet over the corn fields that line it near the farming community of Burlington in Green Bay Bottom, Iowa. "It would have been devastating without the (Air National) Guard here," said local resident Robert Mozingo, a retired mechanical engineer who... Air Force Link http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033601/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:41:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033038/posts WASHINGTON, June 18, 2008 – Thousands of National Guard troops in the Midwest have moved into high gear reinforcing levees, conducting security patrols, and delivering food, water and relief supplies as record-breaking floods surged through the heartland. Ottumwa, Iowa, residents and members of the Iowa National Guard work hand-in-hand to save a power substation from being overrun by flood waters. Iowa National Guard photo by Army Sgt. Chad D. Nelson  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Nearly 4,000 Iowa National Guard troops are deployed across the state as flood levels break records in almost every river community on the... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033038/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:25:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032339/posts OAKVILLE, Iowa -- Southeastern Iowa and other parts of the Midwest filled sandbags in anticipation of the Mississippi River's wrath Tuesday as the rest of Iowa began the slow move from protection to cleanup. The federal government predicts that 27 levees could potentially overflow along the river if the weather forecast is on the mark and a massive sandbagging effort fails to raise the level of the levees, according to a map obtained Monday by the Associated Press. The Wall Street journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032339/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:00:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032254/posts The historic flooding of the Cedar River last week sent water into the Mother Mosque of America, likely destroying nearly a century's worth of records, documents and artifacts, officials said Monday. Imam Taha Tawil, executive director of the mosque, 1335 Ninth St. SW, said no one expected the floodwaters to come as far as the building, the oldest surviving mosque in the United States. "I couldn't even believe that this would happen or that it would come close to us," Tawil said Monday. "In 1993 I was there, and it didn't reach even Second or Third Street." Tawil said he... Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032254/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:57:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032032/posts 6/16/2008 - CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AFPN) -- One hundred-fifty Air National Guardsmen from the 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City, Iowa, landed at The Eastern Iowa Airport June 15 to augment the 295 already working with Army National Guard and state agencies in Cedar Rapids as flood waters recede from what is being called the 500-year mark. This is one of the largest operations for the wing in several years. It's also the first time in recent memory the Iowa ANG has been recalled for duty by the state. "I've been in for 22 years and this is the... Air Force Link http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032032/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:03:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032029/posts 6/16/2008 - INDIANAPOLIS (AFPN) -- Some Indiana National Guardsmen began returning to their homes on June 15, while others began the next phase of their flood duty in the southwest part of the state -- recovery. Joint Task Force - 81 will have 60 of its 1,300 deployed Soldiers stay behind in the vicinity of East Mount Carmel and New Harmony, Ind., said Lt. Col. Deedra Thombleson, the state public affairs officer. These Soldiers will work with local responders to observe the water level at local levees. "The water levels are receding, and the rain coming doesn't look like its... Air Force Link http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032029/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:53:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032013/posts WASHINGTON, June 16, 2008 – More than 600 National Guard members in Illinois and Missouri are continuing sandbagging operations along the Mississippi River today in an effort to thwart the flood waters that are subsiding in Iowa. Soldiers from 1138th Transportation Company, based at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., fill sandbags June 15, 2008, in Clarksville, Mo., an area expected to get more flood water this week. Photo by Gary Stevens, Missouri National Guard  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The Illinois and Missouri rivers flow into the Mississippi River just north of St. Louis. Flooding on those rivers is not... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032013/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:34:28 GMT