THOSE STUPID FLOOD VICTIMS

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

Storm toll hits 15 with more flooding on the way

Residents warily watched as rivers continued to rise today from heavy storms that killed more than a dozen people and dumped as much as a foot of rain on the Midwest.

While the first day of spring brought much needed sunshine today to Ohio and other states, authorities warned that many rivers would crest well above flood stage in the next several days.

The death toll rose to at least 15, after authorities said a man drove his pickup truck into floodwaters in southeast Ohio and drowned early today. Two other people died in the flooding in Ohio.

Many areas remained flooded today.

More here.

How can people be so stupid? Why do all these people live in places where the rivers swell up like this every fifteen or twenty years? Let me tell you, American taxpayers shouldn't have to pay to rebuild a single building in these devastated areas. It's a waste of money and only encourages these stupid people to continue to be stupid. What they should all do is move to a place where this kind of thing doesn't happen. Pathetic, just pathetic.

Of course, I'm just kidding. All due haste should be employed in getting aid to these people, and no expense should be spared in rebuilding as quickly as possible. It's just that I can't help but remember all those right-wing morons who said essentially the same thing about New Orleans in the days and weeks after Katrina, and right up until today. I'm expecting the same kind of morally depraved rhetoric to hit the airwaves soon, unless, of course, it was all racially motivated to begin with--it's hard not to notice that most of these latest flood victims on television are white.

At any rate, as a New Orleans area resident, and as an American, my heart totally goes out to everyone caught up in this current flood disaster. Here's hoping FEMA gets it right this time.

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