"Lack of media coverage and indiference of the Obama Administration to the flooding in the Midwest
You can scroll my Environment file to see how the Globe has covered them so far.
I'm going to let you be the judge from here:
In Louisiana, wait for flood is drawn out
Huge tornado leaves Missouri city devastated
"Missouri city reeling after giant twister; Fires, storms impede rescue; death toll at 116" May 24, 2011|By Alan Scher Zagier and Jim Salter, Associated Press
JOPLIN, Mo. — Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars yesterday in a search for victims of a half-mile-wide tornado that killed at least 116 people when it blasted much of this Missouri city off the map and slammed straight into its hospital.
It was the nation’s deadliest twister in nearly 60 years and the second major tornado disaster in less than a month.
Authorities feared the toll could rise as the full scope of the destruction comes into view: house after house reduced to slabs, cars crushed like soda cans, shaken residents roaming streets in search of missing family members. And the danger was by no means over. Fires from gas leaks burned across town, and more violent weather loomed, including the threat of hail, high winds, and even more tornadoes....
Forecasters said severe weather would probably persist all week. Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma could see tornadoes through today, and the bad weather could reach the East Coast by Friday.
Thanks for the warning.
The twister that hit Joplin was one of more than 50 reported across seven Midwest states over the weekend. One person was killed in Minneapolis and another in Kansas, but Missouri took the hardest hits....
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Joplin survivors recall ‘15 minutes of hell’
Deadly Mo. storm reminds Worcester of ’53 tornado
"Search for tornado survivors a race against time; Mo. toll at 122; 7 die as storms hit elsewhere" by Associated Press / May 25, 2011
JOPLIN, Mo. — Authorities also announced a curfew from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., with only residents and emergency workers allowed inside the disaster zone.
People in the Joplin area and beyond have turned to online social networks to find family members. Multiple Facebook pages created since the tornado are filled with requests for information about specific people who have not been heard from....
Several tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma and high winds pounded rural Kansas. Seven people were killed in the two states....
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"I will tell you why the media is no longer paying attention to the massive flooding hitting our nation. Because like Katrina, and like the Gulf Oil Disaster, and like last weekend's DNS attacks, the current flooding proves that the US Federal Government has, in their devotion to taking care of Israel, not taken any care at all of the United States. The current flooding, like Katrina, and like the Gulf Oil Disaster, and like last weekend's DNS attacks, proves that the Federal Government is very good at dealing with phony monsters they themselves create to scare you into wars of conquest, but totally inept and incompetent at dealing with the real world. And more to the point, the record flooding is the melt from the record snow across the north, something that was not supposed to happen at all according to the global warming/ carbon tax cult. And because the carbonazis are inevitably going to try their fraud again this summer, heavy snow and floods from melted snow are simply not being reported as incompatible with political doctrine and tax policy." -- Wake the Flock Up"