OK Fargo and others-don't You get it?

[strupgolf]

Winter snows, spring rains, rivers running large. PBS, "residents are scrambling" to prepare for the rapidly rising river, the biggest since since 2009. Now wait: you went through this in 2009, and now you're getting ready for another flood. WHAT THE HELL DID YOU NOT LEARN FROM THE LAST BIG FLOOD? People are running around with sand bags, back hoe's, etc all waiting for the big one. "We hope it does not get as high, but we're getting ready with sand bags". With all the federal help you got after the last flood, where did it go? If you live near a BIG FR#####ing river, you better have a good clue that all you have might be lost. Dont depend on the Gov't (US taxpayers) to keep bailing you out. Rant over

[BeyGon]

Originally Posted by strupgolf

Winter snows, spring rains, rivers running large. PBS, "residents are scrambling" to prepare for the rapidly rising river, the biggest since since 2009. Now wait: you went through this in 2009, and now you're getting ready for another flood. WHAT THE HELL DID YOU NOT LEARN FROM THE LAST BIG FLOOD? People are running around with sand bags, back hoe's, etc all waiting for the big one. "We hope it does not get as high, but we're getting ready with sand bags". With all the federal help you got after the last flood, where did it go? If you live near a BIG FR#####ing river, you better have a good clue that all you have might be lost. Dont depend on the Gov't (US taxpayers) to keep bailing you out. Rant over

Happens all over, the south and east get hit with hurricanes, the midwest gets tornados, the people that live on the beach all over get the high waves. The beach in front of a lot of their homes is "private" but the tax dollars pay for it before and after.

[badcar]

I grew up there and lived near the river. The frequency and severity of the floods over the past twenty years has picked up. As someone that had to sandbag to save my childhood home 3 times in my lifetime, and volunteered in the late 1990's to help my former neighbors, I can assure you that no federal funds were received by my family nor those friends who I helped back then.
Generally the floods are minor and a normal occurrence each spring. But Mother Nature has been a "bxtch" lately.

[yazhound]

I lived there for three years in 70's; people are fantastic, very hard working, and self-sufficient. As a rule nothing stopped when the weather turned bad. No school closing in the three tough winters that I lived there. On top of that, they have pride in ownership, neat and clean. I have lived all over the USA and in both Europe and in Asia, and must say that the nicest folks as a whole have been those in the Fargo area. As for why live there.. why you live where you do? In Fargo for many, many years, it has been central to a large part of our nation's "breadbasket". As previous poster noted, weather affects most - just different versions....

[pwd72s]

This would be my main stop...

Fargo Billiards | You Gotta See This Place

[andyt11]

Does the OP want everyone to move out of tornado alley too? While your at it, everyone living on the sanbandreas fault line oughta go too.

[VINMAN]

Big issue here on the Jersey Shore. We have a few areas that have been trashed pretty bad a number of times the past couple years.. A lot of resdients here are saying that they are tired of footing the cost of rebuilding the same things over and over.

[gacook]

And this is the primary reason I love Arizona: we have no real weather problems--no hurricanes, blizzards, tornadoes, earthquakes, etc. We occasionally have flash floods, but only the true morons get caught up in those. And where I live, it's not even all THAT hot.

[Don Ro]

Originally Posted by gacook

And this is the primary reason I love Arizona: And where I live, it's not even all THAT hot.

Where in AZ do you live?
Do you get monsoon disturbances?
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I agree. 'Been here since Fall of '10...I just stay indoors in the hot months & work on my little projects.

[gacook]

I'm waaayyy down in Sierra Vista (about as far SE Arizona as you can go). We get crazy wind this time of year...monsoons have been quite mild the past few years, which I actually don't like (I grew up in Tucson and love the monsoons), we get some very mild snow in the winter, and our temperatures typically range around 10 degrees cooler than whatever Tucson's experiencing.

The hot months is when I'm outside the most; getting my ginger skin all burned to a crisp Plus, the golf courses tend to be cheaper during the summer to coax people to brave the heat and come play a round.

[RWebb]

illegal immigrants, coyotes, and drug gangs are not a weather problem...

[gacook]

Originally Posted by RWebb

illegal immigrants, coyotes, and drug gangs are not a weather problem...

And where I live, it's not a real problem, either. Gangs are non-existent (it's a small, VERY conservative town, completely dependent on the Army base); we have an ass-ton of Border Patrol in the area, so illegals tend to try to head in other directions and for the most part, coyotes (if you're talking about the human kind) are smart enough to not linger around here. Animal version of coyotes...I love listening to them howl at night.

Do we have drug problems? Of course. Typically, your garden variety potheads with a sprinkling of trailer trash meth heads.