Dam failures

[lovinlife101]

Yep, everyone in that market is a dam failure!!!

[lovinlife101]

Why are you making jokes about this? I have some very close friends who may lose their homes. Seriously, get a life.

So I’m supposed to feel bad for your friends and nobody else?

Got it, Skippy!

[lovinlife101]

Here's the main problem with this lack of perspective, MIDLAND FLOODS ALL THE TIME!!!

Reporter: "IT'S PANDEMONIUM HERE! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! THE AREAS THAT REGULARLY FLOOD, (lights hair on fire) ARE FLOODING AGAIN!!!!"

Here's 2017: https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article ... 244192.php

2014's Midland County state of emergency: https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/2014 ... local.html

2013: https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/2013 ... siden.html

Here's 1986: https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article ... 013407.php

Here's the City of Midland admitting "Yep, Midland floods." https://cityofmidlandmi.gov/DocumentCen ... ing?bidId=

Any questions?

Oh, and there's no truth to the rumor you heard that Midland is about to be renamed "Midlake."

[lovinlife101]

I can’t believe that every station didn’t go wall to wall with coverage of the dam failures. Horrible call. This is a life threatening emergency and part of our duty as a TV station.

As usual, the local stations drop the ball while outsiders parachute in, do a much better job, and leave.

[lovinlife101]

Literally everyone on Facebook is doing a better job covering the flooding than any local TV station.

[lovinlife101]

The Botox bimbo isn't helping with her lack of intelligence or accuracy either.

"Midland could be nine feet under water!"

Ain't going to happen. If you measure at the lowest point by the tridge or the farmer's market, which flood every year, it may be nine feet of water, but no, downtown Midland will not be nine feet under water. The water won't even get to Main Street. Mark it down.

[lovinlife101]

Yeah, I was confused by that remark by Whitmer, too. A couple feet? Sure. Widespread nine foot depths of standing water seems like a colossal stretch.

But hey, the alarmist claim of 9 feet brings in the network news crews and gives Whitmer more camera time.

What gets me is nobody questions it!

Aren't reporters supposed to verify that something is even possible before reporting that it may be true?

[lovinlife101]

Just a reminder, not a drop on Main Street.

Hardly "nine feet."

[lovinlife101]

Lovin: true not nine feet... but with the amount of damage the flood waters caused in other locations, better safe than sorry. But emergency management officials that came up with the nine feet assessment might want to review the data down the road. There’s probably not good modeling for eight inches of rain in 48 hours leading to multiple dam failures.

Unfortunately, nobody who claimed "nine feet under water" will admit there is no water on Main Street. Zero, zilch, nil, nada.

The most ignorant person could have had a better prediction than saying there will by nine feet of water and there being no water.

Why don't you get Lia Kamana out there in her bikini and she can measure it.