Archive for July, 2010

Severe storms cause flooding, outages in Chicago – CNN.com

CNN iReporter Nancy Holst of Lombard said her husband, who is a firefighter, responded to several calls overnight where he was working in waist-deep floodwaters. She said he took one look at her once-blooming garden now sitting under 6 inches of water and said, “That’s nothing.” Speaking of flooding and burdened states, how exactly does […]

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Dam fails in eastern Iowa, causing massive flooding – CNN.com

Looks like Mother Nature is doing her damnedest to drive us into more state bankruptcies; either that, or just to get us rebellious kids off her front lawn. Of course, I don’t suppose our chronic lack of infrastructure funding has anything to do with this failure… The roads on either side of the dam — […]

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