Tuesday, September 30, 2008

How Long are We Going to Keep Doing This?

Nice story about some Nebraska Volunteers who are coming back from Louisiana

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska state workers who went to
Louisiana to help hurricane victims are headed for home.
The 12 Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services workers
left Nebraska on Sept. 12 and had been slated to return Sept. 22.
But they stayed an extra week to continue their relief efforts.
Louisiana is picking up the costs.
The Nebraska staffers have worked on the federal disaster food
stamp program, mostly recently this summer after several Nebraska
communities were hit by storms.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture provided more than $11
million worth of disaster benefits for food in Nebraska after state
officials approved aid for more than 23,500 households statewide.


It used to be a big deal, a rare occurance, when a hurricane would cause enormous amounts of damage. Hugo was a bad one. So was Andrew. Those are two past storms that I can recall off the top of my head.

These days, it's like the gulf coast gets destroyed every single year. 2005 was a complete cluster eff even BEFORE Katrina rolled in and destroyed a major American city.

How long before people admit that it was a stupid idea to build towns and cities below sea level on the coast, pull up stakes, and get the hell out of there?

Bad weather is everywhere, yeah, I know. THIS however has become a regular occurance.

MOVE you dumbshits. MOVE.

2 comments:

halfcuthookjaw said...

rebuilding and living in new orleans isnt stupid. it can be done and should be done. the netherlands seems to get by just fine

Pheasant Dispatch said...

I must have missed the news about all the tropical storms devastating the netherlands.

I need to be more observant.