..that with all of the 9+ counties in a state of distaster in Ohio, disaster areas in Minnesota, flooding in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa, I hear less complaining about people's hardships there than I do about New Orleans, even 2 years after Katrina?
At Fox Lake, in northern Illinois, residents were busy stacking sandbags to protect their houses from the rising Fox River, said Ami McEwan, assistant administrator for Lake County.
"Most of them are sandbagging and keeping it at bay," she said.
Thankfully FEMA and state governments are coming to aid- but in the meantime,
midwesterners underwater just keep on sandbagging.
The river topped its banks at noon and was flowing over a riverfront park, said Joy Hanson, who owns the Mason House Inn & Caboose Cottage, a bed and breakfast at Bentonsport. She said there wasn't time to start sandbagging.
"It's like a panic," she said. "There are a lot of people here from other towns helping out."
Their Christmas ornaments are gone, but they're not crying for the federal government to buy new ones, because after all, the weather isn't under the federal government's control. Hmmmmm....
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Could it have something to do with the diffence in death tolls? Or just general response? Or overall amount of devastation? Last I heard, no stadiums were destroyed in the midwest.
Stadiums? when it's flooding and the destruction of memories and life possessions, who cares about stadiums. they'd build another, I'm sure.
Hmm, you are correct LMS. But I still wonder about how losing some life possessions could compare to losing one's life. Especially when the loss of life was completely avoidable.
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