Gretchen Whitmer Failed Response To Michigan Flooding, Dam Break

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Michigan's infrastructure has suffered for years. This is the cost for that negligence. Thank you Jennifer Granholm.
 
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TennTradition said:
Expectations are that downtown Midland will be under 9 ft of water by tomorrow morning. Wow.
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Wow. Midland, MI is always associated in my mind as the home of Dow Chemical, the firm I worked for as a fresh UTK graduate for a few years. I worked at their Plaquemine, LA site and have never been to Midland but we had big shots from Midland in the plant from time to time.
 
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zeppelin128 said:
Being interviewed does not mean anything more than being interviewed.
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And it doesn't change the fact that the entire list is the exact same pick. Picking someone as a political ploy is just that a political ploy. Geraldine Ferraro says hello
 
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KB5252 said:
It's sad how horrible the candidates we've been given to choose from have been lately isn't it? The fact that these morons have been in power for decades and are directly responsible for the waste and pandering and continue to get reelected is beyond me. The fact they have the audacity to go to a podium and claim to have the answers to solve the countries problems, I take as a personal insult, do they really feel we are all that stupid? I wish the rest of America would wake the hell up!
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And we have a political party who rallied behind a career politician
 
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zeppelin128 said:
Not sure what point you are trying to make. They thought it would hold, found out it wouldn't hold, and warned folks. I'm not coming at this from a partisan angle. Just wondering what point you are trying to make?
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If the levy breaking in New Orleans was George Bush's fault shouldn't this one fall on Governor Frankenberry?
 
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vols40 said:
If the levy breaking in New Orleans was George Bush's fault shouldn't this one fall on Governor Frankenberry?
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Actually by that logic this is Trump's fault. I'm sure he will throw some folks under the bus, so you will have some political opponents you can put two in the head behind the Capitol building.
 
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This type of issue isn’t unique to a party or a state. At some point during my lifetime it’s possible downtown Dallas will be under water when the Lake Lewisville dam fails which has already been deemed high risk by the USA Corps of Engineers whom are responsible for maintenance of this dam.

Work is underway to shore up the dam’s structural integrity and hopefully it isn’t too little too late. I think about half a million people would be immediately directly impacted by a failure of this dam not to mention the longer term fallout.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
This type of issue isn’t unique to a party or a state. At some point during my lifetime it’s possible downtown Dallas will be under water when the Lake Lewisville dam fails which has already been deemed high risk by the USA Corps of Engineers whom are responsible for maintenance of this dam.

Work is underway to shore up the dam’s structural integrity and hopefully it isn’t too little too late. I think about half a million people would be immediately directly impacted by a failure of this dam not to mention the longer term fallout.
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As a country we have allowed our vital infrastructure to go to ****.
 
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It took a piece of an overpass to fall and nearly kill a motorist at the I-75 and I-24 interchange in Chattanooga before .gov decided that, at nearly 60 years old, the interchange needed to be completely redesigned.

It makes you wonder where the money has gone. Toward the end of his administration, Clinton signed a 2 trillion dollar infrastructure bill. Bush II did the same. Obama signed the stimulus that allegedly funded “ shovel ready projects”, and I’m sure Trump has probably signed an infrastructure bill. National infrastructure is the federal government’s constitutional responsibility, yet it’s failed time and again to adequately maintain it properly.
 
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MG1968 said:
It took a piece of an overpass to fall and nearly kill a motorist at the I-75 and I-24 interchange in Chattanooga before .gov decided that, at nearly 60 years old, the interchange needed to be completely redesigned.

It makes you wonder where the money has gone. Toward the end of his administration, Clinton signed a 2 trillion dollar infrastructure bill. Bush II did the same. Obama signed the stimulus that allegedly funded “ shovel ready projects”, and I’m sure Trump has probably signed an infrastructure bill. National infrastructure is the federal government’s constitutional responsibility, yet it’s failed time and again to adequately maintain it properly.
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Or the billions of dollars given to the telecom companies in the 90s to upgrade their infrastructure and nothing has been done with it. This countries infrastructure is that of a third world country.
 
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MG1968 said:
It took a piece of an overpass to fall and nearly kill a motorist at the I-75 and I-24 interchange in Chattanooga before .gov decided that, at nearly 60 years old, the interchange needed to be completely redesigned.

It makes you wonder where the money has gone. Toward the end of his administration, Clinton signed a 2 trillion dollar infrastructure bill. Bush II did the same. Obama signed the stimulus that allegedly funded “ shovel ready projects”, and I’m sure Trump has probably signed an infrastructure bill. National infrastructure is the federal government’s constitutional responsibility, yet it’s failed time and again to adequately maintain it properly.
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They've slapped down several million dollars worth of asphalt on I-40 in West Knoxville in just a couple of weeks.
 
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The bridge between Covington ky and Cincinnati oh is damn scary.

I love roller coasters and very little scares me but I have seen actual parts of that bridge fall down and its rusted throughout.

Its gonna go at some point and kill alot of people sadly.
 
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NEOCON said:
The bridge between Covington ky and Cincinnati oh is damn scary.

I love roller coasters and very little scares me but I have seen actual parts of that bridge fall down and its rusted throughout.

Its gonna go at some point and kill alot of people sadly.
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Get on interstate 81 , go up through Virginia and look up when you go under an overpass at the broken concrete and how it’s crumbling
 
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0nelilreb said:
Ever been to Buffalo , Detroit or anywhere in Pennsylvania not on a turnpike ? I use to complain about our roads in the south until I started traveling north .. holy crap
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TN highways are rated pretty good from my understanding. Do you agree?
 
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Orangeburst said:
TN highways are rated pretty good from my understanding. Do you agree?
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For the most part they really are good roads . I use to complain all the time about how crappy they fixed the roads but when I started getting away from the south is when I saw the difference . The weather is so hard on the roads up north that it just beats them apart
 
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0nelilreb said:
For the most part they really are good roads . I use to complain all the time about how crappy they fixed the roads but when I started getting away from the south is when I saw the difference . The weather is so hard on the roads up north that it just beats them apart
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They still salt the roads and bridges?
 
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If I had to pick a worst city for roads / streets , it would have to be buffalo you could lose a car in those pot holes . Detroit is a close second . I love driving west though .
 
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0nelilreb said:
If I had to pick a worst city for roads / streets , it would have to be buffalo you could lose a car in those pot holes . Detroit is a close second . I love driving west though .
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I was coming off the highway in Houston a few years ago and the ramp went down below road grade. It was raining like crazy and I was cruising along and all the sudden all my windows fogged up in like 3 seconds. It happened so fast, like there was a change in humidity/temp off the ramp. I literally could not see anything and I hit something and had no idea if I hit a person or what. The expansion joint in the concrete road had separated and dropped down a few inches and I had hit it square, taking out 2 tires. Quite a jolt and sequence of events.
 
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Orangeburst said:
I was coming off the highway in Houston a few years ago and the ramp went down below road grade. It was raining like crazy and I was cruising along and all the sudden all my windows fogged up in like 3 seconds. It happened so fast, like there was a change in humidity/temp off the ramp. I literally could not see anything and I hit something and had no idea if I hit a person or what. The expansion joint in the concrete road had separated and dropped down a few inches and I had hit it square, taking out 2 tires. Quite a jolt and sequence of events.
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Damn that had to be scary . I hate going around the 410 in San Anton and the 610 around Houston . Crazy ass Texas drivers man . Lol
 
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