Levee Breaks in Nevada: Its Gotta Be President Bush’s Fault
January 7th, 2008 at 12:01am Mark Noonan
The crisis:
FERNLEY — Jesus Rodriguez was jolted awake early Saturday by his wife, who told him the street outside their house was filling with water.
“Flooding in the desert? I never thought it could happen here,” Rodriguez said. “I thought she was crazy.”
But within 20 minutes, the construction worker, his wife and their four children had waded through 3 feet of water, piled into their car and were trying to outrun the flood.
The car had gone only 10 feet before its engine died. “I told the kids everything would be OK,” Rodriguez said.
Hundreds of Fernley residents evacuated their homes early Saturday after a 4 a.m. breach in an irrigation canal’s earthen levee sent rising waters into this high desert town 30 miles east of Reno.
At least 18 of the town’s 15,000 residents had to be evacuated by boats or helicopters provided by the Naval Air Station at Fallon and the Nevada Army National Guard, said Scott Huntley, division chief of the North Lyon County Fire Protection District. Local residents in fishing boats rescued many more. Huntley said the number of people rescued could approach 100.
It is unclear why President Bush ordered that levee to be blown up as we are unaware of a large, urban, black population he would want to destroy in that area. Current theories are:
1. President Bush is planning on ensuring that Nevada’s electoral votes go GOP in 2008 by blowing up Hoover Dam and flooding Democrat-heavy Las Vegas just before election day - this was just a dry run, as it were.
2. Illegal wiretaps of innocent Americans proved that Fernley, Nevada is a hotbed of “truthers” who know what really happened on 9/11, and this is President Bush’s way of letting them know they’d better keep quiet.
3. The letters in “fernley nevada” can be used to spell “fear laden vey” - a clear attempt to put more false fear of terrorism into the minds of Americans in service of the Jewish, neo-con cabal.
4. Haliburton wants to build an oil pipeline between Sacramento and Salt Lake City, and Fernley was just in the way.
5. “New Orleans”, “Fernley” - absolutely nothing in common, and if that doesn’t just stink to high heaven of conspiracy, then I don’t know my arse from a hole in the ground.
We’ll be keeping a close eye on this - unless, of course, “they” make us stop…
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17 Comments
1. roughridersfan | January 7th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Busted!
2. Thrower | January 7th, 2008 at 1:37 am
Let me be the first “troll puke” to say it isn’t a Bush problem. It is a Nevada problem. If you want better levees, either cut spending or raise taxes to pay for them. If we continue to elect people who can’t make tough choices (including raising taxes when necessary), we’ll all be under water at some point.
3. Right Wing News&hellip | January 7th, 2008 at 3:48 am
Levee Breaks in Nevada: Its Gotta Be President Bush’s Fault By Mark Noonan
The crisis: FERNLEY — Jesus Rodriguez was jolted awake early Saturday by his wife, who told him the street outside their house was filling with water. “Flooding in the desert? I never thought it could happen here,” Rodriguez said. “I…
4. Huck Fillary | January 7th, 2008 at 4:25 am
Blackwater will be making a bid soon for the affected land, since their plot to burn down California failed miserably. Those damn Neocons!!!
lol
5. Ricorun | January 7th, 2008 at 6:16 am
I think you need to revise option 1: blowing up the Hoover Dam wouldn’t flood Vegas. Laughlin would have a tough time though. It might do a number on Harry Reid’s house too! Lol!
Nah, prolly not. Reid’s house is well up the hill.
6. OhioOrrin | January 7th, 2008 at 6:24 am
hold da phone…
…climate change caused it….
and everybody knows Bush caused that!!
everybody ‘cept the deniers & deadenders.
7. Bigfoot | January 7th, 2008 at 7:54 am
I think you need to revise option 1: blowing up the Hoover Dam wouldn’t flood Vegas. Laughlin would have a tough time though.
Needles, CA and several cities in AZ such as Bullhead City and Lake Havazu City would also in trouble. Maybe even Yuma would be affected.
But look at the bright side. For once, some of the Colorado River would actually reach the Gulf of California (a.k.a. Sea Of Cortez) before evaporating away.
8. Bull | January 7th, 2008 at 9:00 am
mark, you’ve also failed to mention that the bush weather machine has nailed countless numbers of white people across the midwest with extreme cold and blizzard effects. many are without power and the government is not there to warm them up.
9. Sunny | January 7th, 2008 at 11:20 am
really unintelligent post Mark.
10. NeoClown | January 7th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Sunny,
Whenever a conservative tries to be funny it comes across as “unintelligent,” or awkward.
11. Mark Noonan | January 7th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Unintelligent? Do realise how much effort I put into the anagram of “fernley nevada”?
Cripes! Can’t get any respect around here…
12. plainjane | January 7th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Thought this was a Leo post at first.
Not President Bush’s fault unless somehow he recommended a Brownie type to be in charge of Navada’s levee system.
13. Ricorun | January 7th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Mark: Cripes! Can’t get any respect around here…
Well, there was that Hoover Dam thing. Lol!
14. Sunny | January 7th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Sorry Mark, guess I just misplaced my sense of humor today.
15. Web Smith | January 7th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Jesus saved them!
Maybe the Navy knew something we didn’t when it put a Naval station in the middle of the desert.
How fun spending a million tax dollars rescuing 18 people from 3 feet of water.
16. phnx | January 7th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Web, that’s a Naval AIR Station.
17. Huck Fillary | January 7th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Whenever a conservative tries to be funny it comes across as “unintelligent,” or awkward.
Whenever a libgressive troll tries to be intelligent it comes across as impossible…