The U.S. media is completely ignoring Louisiana's current crisis

[Orlong]

And when he finally goes they will criticize him for road closures and security in a disaster area.

You can't win with idiots.

I wont be pleased with Obama's response until he goes down there and starts unloading aid trucks and slinging sand bags like Mr Trump did. In fact Mr Trump even paid for the aid in those trucks.

[unfilteredJW]

We've been organizing donations for the last week.

It was hard to miss, and I spent the last 7 days in a hospital with my mom watching Naked and Afraid, the Olympics, and Misfit Garage.

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Bernie Sanders be like " why do 10 % of the Louisianans get 90% of the rain, we need to address this inequity".

Ok, this was funny, and I am a big Bernie fan.

+1 for what it's worth.

[Kurve1776]

I see nothing to contradict your click bait title.

Now I'm 100% convinced you still haven't read it.

[zenkai]

Now I'm 100% convinced you still haven't read it.

I read it, you mention nothing of the media title which means your original title holds true in your own opinion.

So please correct me on the point's that are wrong.

• You wrote a click bait title saying the media is completly ignoring the flood which is false.
  
• You edited the OP, mentioning no corrections about the click bait title.
  
• Then you get angry when people talk about your thread title, when you could have easily fixed that in your edited OP.
  
• Instead of replying to people, you edited your OP, something that people who already read the first draft won't go back and read...

If you wanted to fix what new posters would talk about you should have included that you changed your mind on the MAIN SUBJECT LINE.

[Independent voter]

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...nap-story.html



Alligators all over the place since the flood.

[Anevers]

I wont be pleased with Obama's response until he goes down there and starts unloading aid trucks and slinging sand bags like Mr Trump did. In fact Mr Trump even paid for the aid in those trucks.

He unloaded "supplies" for 45 seconds.

Also:

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards asked Donald Trump not to come to his state for a photo op, but Trump did anyway, unloading a truck of goods for a full minute. The stunt disrupted emergency workers and volunteers. Individuals defended Trump’s Louisiana trip because he “donated” an entire semi-truck of goods, and made a sizeable cash donation the Louisiana Flood Relief Fund. That is a fine tale of fantasy because evidence shows Trump lied about both scenarios. The truck was not his, and he didn’t donate a single dime.
http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/08/2...load-supplies/

Except it turns out that Trump did not donate $100,000 to an aid relief organization; instead he gave it to a church headed by Pastor Tony Perkins, the leader of a hate group of virulent anti-choice and anti-gay religious extremists known as the Family Research Council. The group is known for their work fighting abortion and stem cell research, demonizing pornography and homosexuality, and promoting “the Judeo-Christian worldview as the basis for a just, free, and stable society…Under his leadership, the group continues to peddle its false claims about homosexuality and has made combating the ‘homosexual agenda’ a seemingly obsessive interest.”
http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/08/2...flood-victims/

So what about the truck?

Did @realDonaldTrump donate supplies in LA? Ascension Parish Spox: "We don’t have any info abt a donation truck that came from him directly"
https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/stat...46407475728384

[Kapadons]

He unloaded "supplies" for 45 seconds.

Also:






So what about the truck?

Do you have a source other than "occupy democrats"?

[starlord]

oh look, a swamp flooded. color me shocked.

glad i moved out of that death trap. people should have taken the hint when they had to divert the mississppi river in order to build there. nature's gonna get her own back sooner or later.

[SinR]

I dunno what news OP is watching, but the news I watch is covering it.

*Shrug*

[TirielWoW]

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...nap-story.html



Alligators all over the place since the flood.

Yeah, a friend sent me a picture of one in the front yard of an apartment/condo where I used to live. :|

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oh look, a swamp flooded. color me shocked.

glad i moved out of that death trap. people should have taken the hint when they had to divert the mississppi river in order to build there. nature's gonna get her own back sooner or later.

It wasn't a swamp. Did you ever actually live in the Baton Rouge area? It's above sea level, those are not wetlands.

[breadisfunny]

i find it really sad how many of the posters in this thread fail at basic geography. seriously guys open a map and find baton rogue. ITS NOT HARD.

[Mafic]

Technically, a wetland can be at sea level, as being below sea level isn't a requirement. A lot of wetlands in Florida are at or slightly above sea level, but the water table is high enough.

That is why wetlands are found throughout the United States whether on the east coast, west coast or as far north as the Dakotas.

[MatadorMedia]

In other news, tornado valley has tornadoes, there's a blizzard on Mt. Everest, and countries near the equator are hot.

[TirielWoW]

Technically, a wetland can be at sea level, as being below sea level isn't a requirement. A lot of wetlands in Florida are at or slightly above sea level, but the water table is high enough.

That is why wetlands are found throughout the United States whether on the east coast, west coast or as far north as the Dakotas.

That has nothing to do with what I said. Baton Rouge and Denham Springs are above sea level, as if that makes a difference.

This isn't a situation of wetlands that regularly flood. The places that flooded this year haven't flooded in living memory. Many of the houses destroyed didn't have flood insurance because they're literally not in flood plains as defined by the government.

In other news, tornado valley has tornadoes, there's a blizzard on Mt. Everest, and countries near the equator are hot.

Do you have any more idiotic things to share with us today? "Tornado valley has tornadoes." And homes that haven't flooded in living memory flooding is unusual at best.

[Mafic]

That has nothing to do with what I said. Baton Rouge and Denham Springs are above sea level, as if that makes a difference.

This isn't a situation of wetlands that regularly flood. The places that flooded this year haven't flooded in living memory. Many of the houses destroyed didn't have flood insurance because they're literally not in flood plains as defined by the government.



Do you have any more idiotic things to share with us today? "Tornado valley has tornadoes." And homes that haven't flooded in living memory flooding is unusual at best.

The problem is that entire area over the last six thousand years is a flood plain as the Mississippi River has migrated its flow countless times. So, while the government agencies may not deem those areas as flood plains, technically they have historically always been flood plains.