Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong,
WRONG.
Quote:
The Army Corps of Engineers said its contractors have been building emergency levees in the cities of Fargo, Grafton, Harwood, Valley City and Wahpeton in North Dakota, and in the cities of Breckenridge, Moorhead and Georgetown in Minnesota.
The corps said it was raising roads and completing lift protection stations to protect four cities in North Dakota's Richland County, and that it issued more than 600,000 sandbags to counties and cities in North Dakota and Minnesota.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...pflooding.htmlQuote:
On Tuesday, President Obama declared a major disaster declaration for North Dakota. The President's action made federal funding available to state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations to help in flood fighting efforts.
Prior to the disaster declaration, North Dakota's State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) was operating around the clock with support from FEMA's Region VIII (Denver) Emergency Response Team (ERT), the national Incident Management Assistance Team (IMAT-West), the National Guard, the American Red Cross, and other federal partners including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the U.S. Small Business Administration.
- FEMA is preparing to ship eight truckloads of ready-to-eat meals, three truckloads of water, 50 emergency generators, one truckload of cots, and one truckload of blankets.
- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers deployed more than 130 personnel and have issued three million sandbags, 310 rolls of poly, HESCO Bastion flood walls and pre-positioned 12 water pumps.
- More than 900 North Dakota National Guard troops have provided sandbagging support in Fargo, Grand Forks, and Bismarck. Guard members have been assisting with evacuations and are poised to continue those efforts as needed. National Guard air operations are supporting the movement of aircraft to stage in key areas of the state and providing aerial support for remedying ice jams in west-central and eastern North Dakota.
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=47798Quote:
A 21-year-old National Guardsman from Bowman, N.D., he had been in Fargo for a week — first building the dike we were standing in front of to a height of 43 feet, and then patrolling it for leaks, one muddy, frigid circuit after another.
http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2009...fargo_notebookQuote:
After the region's last catastrophic flood season, in the spring of 1997, more than a billion dollars were spent on efforts to tame the river.
http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=104&sid=1559881
Just for kicks, why don't you look up the levy spending in the New Orleans area in the last 10 years, and factor in the populations of Greater New Orleans and Greater Fargo (hint - they differ by an order of magnitude), and then tell us what Federal flood control
per capita spending was for each one?
Last, but not least - can you just stop for a minute and imagine what the "why do they live in a floodplain, anyway?" comments about New Orleans would have been like if it had seen similar flooding
just 12 years ago?
Both of your posts on this subject provide ample proof that your assumptions about federal involvement in Fargo are.... ummm.... somewhat inaccurate.
