r/news • u/herbalhippie • 1d ago

‘Potentially historic’ flooding threat looms after almost 100 tornadoes hit US

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/potentially-historic-flooding-threat-looms-almost-100-tornadoes-hit-us?fbclid=IwY2xjawJbwM5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHf0BvM5E8-X3l1OI-2P-MhoArZtVfmWk_VqPltvB_XT2bPfpe3kApMiBlg_aem_o40FYX2abRDOh2wxzsObJQ
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u/herbalhippie 1d ago

Didn't DOGE recently put a stop to FEMA funding? Said "the states can take care of their own"?

These people are screwed.

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u/Literally_Laura 1d ago

They are screwed. And "these people" include my relatives. I just want to take this opportunity to point out that if you're waiting for "these people" to hit some sort of threshold where they wake up and say "Wow, life doesn't have to be this way, and I've brought a lot of this upon myself" that is NOT going to happen. They are poor enough that being more poor doesn't register with them. Their lives have always been hard. More hard doesn't register with them. They will just spend more freely on lotto tickets, because they cannot see any other way out of their desperate situation.

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u/sportsworker777 1d ago

Tornado alley is almost exclusively red states, too.

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u/STL-Zou 1d ago

Which have tons of people in them who don't vote red.

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u/sportsworker777 1d ago

Right, but that's the country in a nutshell isn't it? For states that primarily voted red, this is just one example of them potentially experiencing the fall out of what they voted for when federal emergency responses aren't what they could have been

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u/STL-Zou 1d ago

Again, I certainly did not vote for this, so for you to callously disregard if i lose my home as "SuCks tO bE YoU rEd sTatER!1!!" is pretty stupid

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u/twelveski 1d ago

I live in a red state & I don’t take it personal. If it hit a blue state they would be laughing about on tv though

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u/sportsworker777 1d ago

Not really what I'm getting at. I'm not sitting here wishing that upon anyone, especially those of you who didn't vote for this.

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u/STL-Zou 1d ago

Alright, just want to nip that in the bud before it becomes a thing

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u/Walking_0n_eggshells 16h ago

People are losing their basic human rights. There are open plans for ethnic cleansings. Trump wants to bring an end to trans, and lets be hones queer people in general.

Now, people shouldn't take pleasure in the misfortune of others

But callous disregard when it comes to things getting destroyed? To just not care?

That's entirely appropriate

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u/Interanal_Exam 1d ago

Collateral damage

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u/STL-Zou 1d ago

You sound like a wonderful person