Move, You Stupid Fuckers!!!


Why in the hell do we keep hearing about the same nature related issues each year?


I look at the people in Fargo preparing for their yearly flood and now they have become yearly major floods. Still they don't move and still we help a small town in the middle of B.F.E. rebuild. It's much like rebuilding after hurricanes in states along the Gulf, mudslides in the northwest or after fires in the desert southwest. I've begun to ask myself, are we retarded, insane or what?

In Cedar Rapids, they are building a new Federal Courthouse and guess where they are building it...yep along the same river that was flowing twelve feet over the bridges and about two miles wide, a little less than two years ago. Oh and this river is currently flooding lower lying areas in Cedar Rapids.

It just makes no sense. People bitch and moan about wanting a fiscally conservative government, to the point that we are willing to let tens of thousands die each year due to lack of insurance and yet we won't tell a mother fucker to move. Well, I will...Move mother fuckers!!! Pull your heads out of your asses and move. I'm not saying you have to move to another state but at least a few miles away from the river.

This shit is bonkers and to you along the gulf...you saw where Katrina stopped destroying things...move further inland than that.

People say they live in these places for the beauty but the problem with that logic is that they are not beautiful anymore. They have been burnt, flooded, eroded, covered in concrete, filled with nasty ass chemicals, etc... They were beautiful before you decided to live there and now they are just cities and communities with expensive upkeep.

Can a mother fucker get an amen?!?!?!


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I'd be careful whipping all that bad karma around. I hope you live in a house on a high high hill, never have flammable materials around your house and lightning never ever strikes around you because the wrath of Thor®© is as vicious as it is random.

"In nature, there are no rewards or punishments; there are consequences"

by designs on 03/17/2010 10:31:18 AM EST

There is someone else who remembers this album!

My favorite quote from Consequences is...
"It's not a good omen when goldfish commit suicide."

by CptRich on 03/18/2010 12:42:26 PM EST

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They're called that because they're plains on which floods occur.

I lived in both North Dakota and Iowa, and I've experienced floods in both places.  However, I never lived on a flood plain.  It never seemed to make much sense to me to do so.  After all, I hate moving when it's my choice to do so -- all that packing and hauling and unpacking.  So I try to avoid situations in which I'd have to move by other than my choice.

Other folks, on the other hand, seem to not care.  So I'll accommodate them by not caring when they get flooded.  I'll simply assume that, as reasonable people who knew what they were getting into when they moved onto a flood plain, that they like living on the water...

...or in it.
 

by EveningStarNM on 03/17/2010 11:03:16 AM EST

I agree with the argument about not living or rebuilding in a flood plain, but I don't like the insensitive tone in which is was presented.

David

by yturks on 03/17/2010 11:07:42 AM EST

David thinks you are being insensitive Rick! Maybe you should have said "please."

............. yeah, in response to stupidity I think sensitivity SHOULD be suspended.

by djb12030 on 03/17/2010 01:33:11 PM EST

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well I better not say... it would be insensitive


by Chinese Democracy on 03/17/2010 01:47:33 PM EST

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A lot of people eat unhealthy foods or engage in risky behavior or occupations, or live in Houston and other polluted places, and then whine and complain that their health care is too expensive or that they can't get insurance. Fuck them. If you do stupid shit and you get sick, then suffer the consequences.  Don't hope that some great savior in the Oval Office will help you out with a stupid bill, financed by me.

David

by yturks on 03/17/2010 02:16:15 PM EST

If they cant afford a 40% hike in their premiums.. its their own damn fault.

fuck em!


by Chinese Democracy on 03/17/2010 10:38:38 PM EST

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The Mississippi was once a great overflow swamp.  The river channel itself would swell in the spring and overflow into swampy areas that ranged 25 to 30 miles on each side of the main channel.   Over the past couple of centuries they have built levies that restrict the flow to the main channel and land that was formerly swamp dried up and provided rich, fertile farmland.   People have been living for generations now on that "reclaimed" land.   It isn't a simple matter to tell these populations that they have to just go away.   Would you give up your home and property that easily?   I suppose it may come to that someday but I don't know if we've reached the point where we can say for sure there isn't an engineering solution to the problem.   Don't forget that we eat the food these people produce.

by bfaul on 03/17/2010 04:25:22 PM EST

...people on the Red River in North Dakota should take a look at what their neighbours to the north in Winnipeg did when they got flooded out one too many times.  They diverted the flow of the river around the city during the flood season.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Red_River_Floodway

by rickthaluddite on 03/17/2010 09:23:54 PM EST

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