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(CNN) News Levee breaks, residents of Fernley Nevada got no place to stay   (cnn.com) divider line 134
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Layzerd 2008-01-05 04:03:29 PM  
FEMA Trailers?

 
AceNova 2008-01-05 04:03:59 PM  
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan...

 
Mr. Mudbug [TotalFark] 2008-01-05 04:04:02 PM  
They'll get over it.

 
Dumb-Ass-Monkey [TotalFark] 2008-01-05 04:04:17 PM  
That's one good thing about Petaluma. After years and years and years of floods, we finally have the river shored up well enough to keep the usual spots from flooding any more.

 
The_Talented_Mr_Richards 2008-01-05 04:05:02 PM  
AceNova: Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan...

I submitted this with pretty much that quote as the headline.

Great minds think alike.

 
McJudo 2008-01-05 04:05:06 PM  
I hear New Orleans has room.

 
OneBrightMonkey 2008-01-05 04:05:13 PM  
I'm tempted to post something snarky about rebuilding Iraq instead of shoring up our infrastructure, but I'll opt for wishing those affected good luck and I hope your families are safe.

 
Scorpinock 2008-01-05 04:05:15 PM  

 
Anagrammer 2008-01-05 04:05:25 PM  
Quick! Someone get Sean Penn and a leaky boat!

 
Epsilon [TotalFark] 2008-01-05 04:05:42 PM  
Will they get $2000 debit cards from FEMA?

 
fanbladesaresharp 2008-01-05 04:05:58 PM  
This is why you shouls always have a boat handy. A levee could break somewhere. It could happen to anyone.

 
Constance Velocity 2008-01-05 04:06:15 PM  
If only there were a city nearby that had a lot of hotel rooms to offer people to stay in...

 
The Grinch 2008-01-05 04:06:26 PM  
Cryin' won't help 'em, prayin' wont do 'em no good.
When the levee breaks, mama, they got to move.

 
almandot 2008-01-05 04:07:08 PM  
do all of america's levees keep breaking because they're old now or because they were poorly designed?

 
NeverDrunk23 2008-01-05 04:07:26 PM  
This thread will destroy the universe.

 
MotionPictureSoundtrack 2008-01-05 04:07:28 PM  
I blame Britney.

 
RyanWillia 2008-01-05 04:08:15 PM  
Yahoo: However, Schank said the break may started with rodent burrowing that weakened the canal's earthen bank.
"Evidently it was a rat or a gopher hole. The canal did not overtop the bank," he said.
The irrigation district has a bounty on gophers, said Kate Rutan, an administrative assistant at the district office. "Gophers are terrible for making a hole ... and once (water) finds a weak spot, it will go for it," she said.

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idrow 2008-01-05 04:08:46 PM  
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home,
Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well...

 
Bobo_Spiewack 2008-01-05 04:08:53 PM  
You're doin' a heck of a job Whitey.

 
fivenodes 2008-01-05 04:10:01 PM  
That'll teach 'em from building on the flood plain. Idiots.

 
mike_d85 2008-01-05 04:10:07 PM  
Send them to New Orleans. There's plenty of room there...

 
Constance Velocity 2008-01-05 04:10:18 PM  
almandot: do all of america's levees keep breaking because they're old now or because they were poorly designed?

Global warming is breaking all of the levees.

 
j.r.20k 2008-01-05 04:10:20 PM  
all the american refugees will be looting shortly.

 
fivenodes 2008-01-05 04:11:16 PM  
Epsilon: Will they get $2000 debit cards from FEMA?

Yo Homegirl... Check my fly bag I just boughten wif my FEMA scratch. This shiat is tight!

 
Johny McStabbs 2008-01-05 04:11:19 PM  
myspacecomedy.com

 
SpinStopper [TotalFark] 2008-01-05 04:11:31 PM  
They should come to Houston.

Everybody else does when something goes wrong ;)

 
HowlingFrog [TotalFark] 2008-01-05 04:12:49 PM  
They'd better head for the Misty Mountains.

 
DarkJohnson [TotalFark] 2008-01-05 04:13:35 PM  
Dumb-Ass-Monkey: That's one good thing about Petaluma. After years and years and years of floods, we finally have the river shored up well enough to keep the usual spots from flooding any more.

Yeah but in the end you're still living in Petaluma. (ducks)

 
sels 2008-01-05 04:13:45 PM  
George Bush doesn't care about Led Zeppelin.

 
quickdraw [TotalFark] 2008-01-05 04:14:28 PM  
Constance Velocity: If only there were a city nearby that had a lot of hotel rooms to offer people to stay in...

Most of the flooded residents are stranded because the roads are washed out.

 
toonz 2008-01-05 04:14:37 PM  
SpinStopper: They should come to Houston.

Everybody else does when something goes wrong ;)


Damn Apollo 13... someone says "Houston, we have a problem," now you guys gotta fix ALL of them?

 
aliendave 2008-01-05 04:14:45 PM  
I drove my Chevy down there earlier, but it was dry.

 
im_naked_right_now 2008-01-05 04:15:20 PM  
They didn't break. The President planted a bomb.

 
Mad-n-FL 2008-01-05 04:15:26 PM  
Go to Chicago....

 
RockIsDead 2008-01-05 04:15:44 PM  
WhereTF is Sean Penn!

Hypocrite!

 
AceNova 2008-01-05 04:15:45 PM  
HowlingFrog: They'd better head for the Misty Mountains.

So I'm packing my bags for the Misty Mountains
where the spirits go now,
over the hills where the spirits fly.

 
SustainedHavoc 2008-01-05 04:16:11 PM  
Fernley NOLA'd!

 
brassrob 2008-01-05 04:16:37 PM  
Well, as a New Orleanian whose home didn't flood, I hope they learned their lesson and don't rebuild. Idiots... they knew that they were below sea level and built there anyway?

 
toonz 2008-01-05 04:16:47 PM  
Mad-n-FL: Go to Chicago....

sorry, but I can't take you...

 
AceNova 2008-01-05 04:17:31 PM  
AceNova: HowlingFrog: They'd better head for the Misty Mountains.

So I'm packing my bags for the Misty Mountains
where the spirits go now,
over the hills where the spirits fly.


On second thought, I'm just going to california instead.

 
Foaming [TotalFark] 2008-01-05 04:18:11 PM  
It's a government plot to kill all the gophers.

 
Loki-L 2008-01-05 04:20:36 PM  
almandot: do all of america's levees keep breaking because they're old now or because they were poorly designed?

It is because God is angry and punishing sinners.

You see, the Netherlands are almost entirely below sea level and most of their country is only kept from flooding by a complicated series of government build dams and dikes. They have legalized gay marriage, abortion, euthanasia, prostitution and soft drugs. So obviously God responded by doing her best to drown the US as a warning.

It makes perfect sense.

 
doctorwormwood 2008-01-05 04:21:01 PM  
George Bush doesn't care about prostitutes and gamblers...

 
Manberg 2008-01-05 04:21:10 PM  
Don't worry, FEMA is on it. In a couple of days. Then again it's a weekend, so they'll do something within the next 5 business days.

 
studebaker hoch 2008-01-05 04:21:53 PM  
Fernley is a cool little town in the middle of a great vastness of desert. I wish them luck.

 
serjohn 2008-01-05 04:22:06 PM  
Crying won't help you. Praying won't do you no good....

 
HowlingFrog [TotalFark] 2008-01-05 04:23:41 PM  
NeverDrunk23: This thread will destroy the universe.

Na, it'll just squeeze it's lemon.

 
BrassArt 2008-01-05 04:24:03 PM  
What? No sightings of men in black? No rumors of bombs planted by the government? No rash of kidnappings?

Oh sorry, your right, this isn't New Orleans, these people aren't morons.

 
Feldspar Q. Walrustitty 2008-01-05 04:24:53 PM  
Some were being evacuated to the local high school,

They ALWAYS evacuate people to the local schools.

Here's a tip: Build your farking house on an elevation above the school! You'll always be safe!

/submitted this same damn headline for another levee break a year ago.
//Didn't blow the right people, I guess
///So, who DID I blow?

 
califacondor 2008-01-05 04:25:08 PM  
I broke the levee.

 
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