Mitt Romney To Flood Victim: 'Go Home And Call 211'

[Mayhem]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/01/mitt-romney-211_n_1848432.html

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney launched the final leg of his quest for the White House by visiting storm-battered Louisiana on Friday. He drove through a town that was flooded by Hurricane Isaac in part because it's still outside the vast flooding protection system built with federal funds after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.

Romney and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) spent close to an hour meeting with first responders and local officials. Romney shook hands with National Guardsmen outside the U.S. Post Office and talked with a local resident, Jodie Chiarello, 42, who lost her home in Isaac's flooding.

"He just told me to, um, there's assistance out there," Chiarello said of her conversation with Romney. "He said, go home and call 211." That's a public service number offered in many states.

Chiarello said she will likely seek some other shelter because her home was submerged in the flooding. She expressed frustration about the town's lack of flood protection.

"We live outside the levee protection that's why we get all this water because they close the floodgates up front and all they're doing is flooding us out down here," she said. "It's very frustrating, very. We go through Katrina and Rita and now we're going through Cindy, Lee and now Isaac."

Romney's last-minute visit, announced less than 12 hours after he became the Republican nominee, took him to the disaster area ahead of his Democratic rival, President Barack Obama. The president was following with his own visit to Louisiana on Monday, the White House announced.

Romney went at Jindal's invitation, his campaign said. Jindal, a Republican, told reporters Romney had been in touch several days ago to ask how he could help with storm relief and Jindal suggested Romney come down and see the damage for himself. He said he had extended an invitation to Obama as well.

 

[Will E Worm]

Hurricanes don't sneak up on people. They know to leave the area or suffer the consequences.

"We live outside the levee protection that's why we get all this water because they close the floodgates up front and all they're doing is flooding us out down here," she said. "It's very frustrating, very. We go through Katrina and Rita and now we're going through Cindy, Lee and now Isaac."

Sounds like she needs to move.

 

[PirateKing]

Hurricanes don't sneak up on people. They know to leave the area or suffer the consequences.




Sounds like she needs to move.

Pardon my manners, but suck a bag of dicks.

 

[Will E Worm]

Pardon my manners, but suck a bag of dicks.

Why? Explain.

 

[Johan]

It is clear now : If he was to be confronted to another Hurricane Katrina, Romney would react exactly the way Bush did...
Think about it, Rep voters : Romney does not care for the american people.

 

[Kingfisher]

What the difference between a raging forest fire headed to your home and a hurricane. "Mandatory" Evacuations mean GTFO.

 

[bobjustbob]

It is clear now : If he was to be confronted to another Hurricane Katrina, Romney would react exactly the way Bush did...
Think about it, Rep voters : Romney does not care for the American people.

Not exactly. The thing is that Romney wanted to go there. So he makes the trip and gets the tour. Now what? Do you have the power to mobilize people to help out? News reports not good enough to satisfy your curiosity of the devastation? Why are you there if you can't do shit?

 

[Will E Worm]

What the difference between a raging forest fire headed to your home and a hurricane. "Mandatory" Evacuations mean GTFO.

Yes, it's not like they don't know its coming. They can blame themselves.

 

[PirateKing]

What the difference between a raging forest fire headed to your home and a hurricane. "Mandatory" Evacuations mean GTFO.

Yes, it's not like they don't know its coming. They can blame themselves.

I know you're heartbroken at the prospect of people losing their lives, but this is more about the loss of homes which happens regardless of whether people stay or leave. No point using this thread to go off on a rant about how people only bring misfortunes on themselves.

 

[Will E Worm]

I know you're heartbroken at the prospect of people losing their lives, but this is more about the loss of homes which happens regardless of whether people stay or leave. No point using this thread to go off on a rant about how people only bring misfortunes on themselves.

They do a lot. Mostly by not thinking or listening.

 

[PirateKing]

They do a lot. Mostly by not thinking or listening.

Suffered a lot of misfortune, have you?

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

Suffered a lot of misfortune, have you?

His birth....

 

[Moonchild22]

While I get PirateKing's point about not blaming the victims, and saying "should've/shouldn't have" this and that, which doesn't change what happened (the people should still get the assistance they need), I also agree with Will E Worm on the fact that it is foolish to reside in the New Orleans area, because it's a fact that they will get wiped out every now and then.
When the French first wanted to settle in New Orleans, the Native Americans even tried to warn them not to build homes around there, because they knew the land and knew it wasn't good land. They told them it would get washed out by floods. The French said "Ah, yeah, that's nice, whatever", and did it anyway. Mother nature always wins the fight.

 

[lurkingdirk]

His birth....

No. That's OUR misfortune.

 

[Sam Fisher]

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

No. That's OUR misfortune.

Ah-So

 

[TheSpokenWheel]

Hurricanes don't sneak up on people. They know to leave the area or suffer the consequences.
Sounds like she needs to move.

Yes, it's not like they don't know its coming. They can blame themselves.

They do a lot. Mostly by not thinking or listening.

Funny. You were a lot more sympathetic to the people of Tennessee when you could use it to take shots a liberals:
http://board.freeones.com/showthrea...et-Live-type&p=6960129&viewfull=1#post6960129

 

[lurkingdirk]

Well, this is fun and easy.

 

[max22]

Good people cannot compete in the corrupt political system.

 

[larss]

Did Mitt offer her use of some scuba diving equipment, given that her home was under water?
Maybe he could have offered his mobile phone for her to use.