UPDATE: At the Sioux Falls City Council Informational meeting today, councilor Erickson said that by having homeowners and volunteers cleanup their own mess after the tornados it gave them a ‘sense of pride’ and that they ‘shouldn’t depend on government for everything’. Thanks Ronald Reagan. What I find ironic is that while we pay taxes to help us all collectively when things like this occur (natural disasters) and infrastructure repair, their is NOTHING in our city charter that requires us to provide entertainment to us with our tax dollars, or to enrich private developers. But Erickson and several other councilors have never even twitched when giving massive bailouts and taxpayer incentives to private non-profits and private developers. Maybe the next time one of them shows up for our tax dollars and a handout, they should tell them the same, ‘You shouldn’t depend on government’ to subsidize your bottom line.
So where do all the volunteers go to collect their checks?
As I said when the Mayor couldn’t figure out if he wanted to use city personnel for cleanup or not, it seems they had a change of heart, or at least Gov. Donita Trump did;
Governor Kristi Noem has requested a presidential disaster declaration for damage done by September storms in South Dakota.
That includes the three tornadoes that struck portions of Sioux Falls and extreme flooding that occurred in the cities of Madison and Mitchell.
The request is for Sept. 9-Sept. 26 and includes at least $17 million in requested federal assistance.
Kinda of funny how it works, isn’t it? We pay Federal Income Taxes, and when we have trouble, and natural disasters, they pay up, or at least we hope they will.
Since the city’s tornado recovery costs have been placed under snow removal costs, does that mean that next year’s plow painting might include the hydraulic snow gates, too, with the help of additional federal monies? If so, imagine the things you could paint on those gates with their moving arms.
Please find out if the mayor is going to bring high paying jobs to the city.
Yes, tornadoes, flooding, habitat destruction, wildfire potential and now another eight month winter returns to the chemical toilet, perpetual welfare state and permanent disaster area that is South Dakota.
Ash and soot from wildfires in the Siberian taiga are accelerating the loss of Arctic sea ice driving more frequent and deeper polar vortexes. Very soon the Yellowstone supervolcano will finally put South Dakota out of its misery.
Much of the request is for flooding from rains. Including the tornados might be a mistake. Damage is handled with insurance claims. Infrastructure survived. Also, it was one tornado that touched down 3 times in a 3 block area. Making it sound worse could jeopardize fed funding.
She probably needs funds to repair her sign:
https://www.southdacola.com/blog/2019/09/karma/
( – and Woodstock states: “Yah, ‘invented,’ and let me guess, is your name ‘Al,’ too?…. Oh, and while we are on that, were Al-Baghdadi and ‘Baghdad Bob’ somehow related?”)
After careful consideration, I’m ready to come to terms and find out who this Woodstock character is or how he/she originated.
Thank you in advance.
According to the National Weather Service, there were three EF-2 tornadoes in Sioux Falls as assessed on Sept. 10. The link to their map shows the touchdown areas at 41st-49th St. near Western Mall, 69th St. near the Avera Heart Hospital and Avera Behavioral Health, and in SE Sioux Falls.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EENKNhRUcAAkPlw?format=jpg&name=large
Yes, and the fascinating thing about these three tornadoes is that they create a triangle, and in the middle of this triangle is found the ‘Old Yankton Trail Road,’ which is, thus, most likely where the early settlers left the gold before heading to Yankton in 1862 to hide from the Sioux uprisings.
I also suggest we begin to dig up lots and homes in that neighborhood, too – taupe or not – to find those hidden treasures.