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Fleet of monster trucks conducts rescues in flood-ravaged Texas
ABC News ^ | 09/31/2017 | Julia Jacobo

Posted on 09/01/2017 10:41:53 AM PDT by ForYourChildren

A fleet of monster trucks driven by volunteers is traveling to Texas cities hardest hit by floodwaters.

Video posted to Facebook shows a monster truck -- comprised on an SUV on monster truck wheels -- pulling a U.S. Army vehicle out of deep floodwaters in Houston on Wednesday.

A crowd cheers as the military vehicle is pulled onto higher ground.

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(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: flood; hurricaneharvey; monstertrucks; rescue; suv
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1 posted on 09/01/2017 10:41:54 AM PDT by ForYourChildren
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To: ForYourChildren

A bunch of deplorable bitter clingers with their monster trucks.


2 posted on 09/01/2017 10:42:03 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: ForYourChildren

A video of those deplorable bitter clingers with their monster trucks pulling out a stuck military vehicle.

Ha!

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/903444880583782403/video/1


3 posted on 09/01/2017 10:43:05 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: ForYourChildren

Those are scary people. They probably are gun owners too! Oh the horror, the horror, the horror....


4 posted on 09/01/2017 10:44:47 AM PDT by forgotten man
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To: ForYourChildren

How water resistant are those things?

They’d be great for communities to have on call in case of flash flooding...if they wouldn’t flood out themselves.


5 posted on 09/01/2017 10:46:05 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: ForYourChildren
🚜. Anyone flyin' stars and bars?
6 posted on 09/01/2017 10:48:47 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: forgotten man

“Those are scary people. They probably are gun owners too! Oh the horror, the horror, the horror....”

Oh noes....

you are probably right.

I bet they may even have some of those scary guns in their monster trucks...

oh noes.

Don’t save me. I don’t want one of those deplorable bitter clingers with their monster trucks and guns to save me. I will am being triggered. Where is my safe space? Oh yea, better to stay here in the flood water. Much safer here in the flood waters than with those gun owning deplorable bitter clingers with their monster trucks.


7 posted on 09/01/2017 10:49:26 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: rktman

“Anyone flyin’ stars and bars?”

better add that to my rant in my previous post.


8 posted on 09/01/2017 10:50:03 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: ForYourChildren

“A video of those deplorable bitter clingers with their monster trucks pulling out a stuck military vehicle.”

No, no, no. You’re spreading the same kind of guff Obama warned us about. Clearly the Army truck risked the deep water to PUSH that civilian truck using special rigid “push rope” - developed in secret government laboratories using tax payer dollars WHICH THE REPUBLICANS threatened to cut.

‘Cause “you didn’t build that.”


9 posted on 09/01/2017 10:51:37 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Flash Bazbeaux

No that is funny!

Well done.

I gotta get me one of those “special rigid “push rope” - developed in secret government laboratories using tax payer dollars WHICH THE REPUBLICANS threatened to cut.”

Amazon.com?


10 posted on 09/01/2017 10:53:19 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: Flash Bazbeaux

hmm, ok, I googled “push rope”

Got more than I bargained for.

https://www.google.com/search?q=push+rope&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjkhJmYx4TWAhXmq1QKHYW9Dm0Q_AUICygC&biw=1438&bih=647&dpr=0.95


11 posted on 09/01/2017 10:54:35 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: ForYourChildren; Daffynition; left that other site
A fleet of monster trucks

Only in America.

That's exactly the kind of can-do ingenuity that infuriates the rest of the world on a daily basis.

12 posted on 09/01/2017 10:56:38 AM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: ForYourChildren

Awesome.


13 posted on 09/01/2017 10:58:43 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: Ezekiel

“That’s exactly the kind of can-do ingenuity that infuriates the rest of the world on a daily basis.”

True.

And interesting wording.

“infuriates the rest of the world” like the demoncrats, msm, leftists, GOPe, RINOs, etc.

They are all included in the “the rest of the world”

They don’t belong with the normal traditional family bitter clingers. They are truly of another world.


14 posted on 09/01/2017 10:59:18 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: Bratch

It’s all in HEIGHT! If you lift the engine, which includes its air intake, another 4 feet, then you have another 4 feet of capability to get through water (which is probably 2 feet plus to start). If you lift it 6 feet, that much better.


15 posted on 09/01/2017 11:01:02 AM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: ForYourChildren

MAGA

This is common place when you keep Fedzilla at bay.

The Fed Gov. FUBARs every thing it tries to do that the private sector can handle.


16 posted on 09/01/2017 11:04:37 AM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: ForYourChildren

“Those are scary people. They probably are gun owners too! Oh the horror, the horror, the horror....”

I always use the following example:

A white guy gets lost in Downtown Baltimore...likely dead, or at least robbed, due to the Alt-Left, unless very lucky.

A black guy gets lost in North Michigan (i.e., Michigan Militia)...likely he gets some food, water, maybe money, and directions to help him get where he’s going.

Whether the media wants to accept it, that is TODAY’S society.


17 posted on 09/01/2017 11:05:49 AM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: BobL
It’s all in HEIGHT! If you lift the engine, which includes its air intake, another 4 feet, then you have another 4 feet of capability to get through water (which is probably 2 feet plus to start). If you lift it 6 feet, that much better.

More if you have a snorkel. I know folks in Houston with snorkels on their jeeps.

18 posted on 09/01/2017 11:08:34 AM PDT by zeugma (The Brownshirts have taken over American Universities.)
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To: ForYourChildren
Yup. I should have included the Establishment. Satan despises competition, which explains why he's put most of his effort into building DC and calling his devoted minions “representatives of the People”.
19 posted on 09/01/2017 11:11:16 AM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: ForYourChildren

And they certainly arent Americans (except maybe geographically but since they hate all of us I dont consider them Americans)


20 posted on 09/01/2017 11:14:30 AM PDT by boxlunch (Pray for Donald Trump and his administration! Disband the DMC! (Democrat Media Complex). r)
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