Flooding Across Central Europe This Past Week

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While I haven’t watched much tv in the past month, my wife has. She says that there has been almost no coverage on non-cable news this week.
I’ve read about it online, but I had no idea that it was so wide spread.
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Heavy rainfall over Europe during the the past week has swollen many rivers past their flood stage, wreaking havoc unseen in decades across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic. At least 18 people across the region have been killed, and tens of thousands have been evacuated. In Germany, the crest of the Elbe River is now approaching the North Sea, as the swollen Danube River is surging toward the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Collected here are images from the past several days of those affected by these historic floods, even as meteorologists predict more rain over the coming weekend.
Here are a few pictures. There is a total of 36 at the link. It’s very sobering and a few are more heart wrenching than others.
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/06/flooding-across-central-europe/100530/
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I hope that the photographer was able to rescue this poor thing. We have a female cat named Ebony that looks like this cat. When I saw this and saw the terror in it’s eyes I instantly teared up. The rest of the day hasn’t been the same.

A cat tries to escape floodwater from the river Vltava in Kly, near Melnik, Czech Republic, on June 4, 2013. (Michal Cizek/AFP/Getty Images) #
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No words….

A young boy looks out from the back of an army truck that is evacuating people from the flooded village of Devin, in Bratislava, Slovakia, on June 5, 2013. (Reuters/Radovan Stoklasa) #
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It seems that no matter where a disaster happens, the Red Cross is there. Bless ‘em.

A Red Cross member talks to residents from his boat in the flooded center of Passau, Germany, on June 3, 2013. Raging waters from three rivers have flooded large parts of the southeast German city following days of heavy rainfall in central Europe. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) #
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The door of a flooded house in the village of Lounky, Czech Republic, on June 6, 2013. Tens of thousands of Germans, Hungarians and Czechs were evacuated from their homes on Wednesday as soldiers raced to pile up sandbags to hold back rising waters in the region’s worst floods in a decade. (Reuters/David W Cerny) #
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A girl from the village of Mlekojedy stands with her dog in front of the flooded road to her home, near the city of Litomerice, Czech Republic, on June 5, 2013. (Reuters/Petr Josek) #
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If you look close, the little boy and this woman have almost the same look in their eyes.

Petra Breitenfeller surveys her flood-damaged shop “Geko” in the center of the Bavarian city of Passau, on June 7, 2013. (Reuters/Michaela Rehle) #
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Seems like no matter what country…..

A German soldier takes a break on the top of a sandbag dam in Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt Germany, on June 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) #
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Mr. President! Mr. President! You did it all wrong!

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This is no way to monitor a hurricane as President.

I’m not sure where this pic is from. I got it in an email.
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President Barack Obama receives an update on the ongoing response to Hurricane Sandy, in the Situation Room of the White House, Oct. 29 2012. Participating via teleconference, clockwise from top left, are: Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano; FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate; Rick Knabb, Director of the National Hurricane Center; Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood; and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu. Pictured, from left, are: Clark Stevens, Assistant Press Secretary; Emmett Beliveau, Director of the Office of the Chief of Staff; John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism; Richard Reed, Deputy Assistant to the President for Homeland Security; Chuck Donnell, Senior Director for Resilience; Asha Tribble, Senior Director for Response; Chief of Staff Jack Lew; Alyssa Mastromonaco, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations; Press Secretary Jay Carney; and David Agnew, Director for Intergovernmental Affairs. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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President Barack Obama participates in a conference call with electric utility executives to discuss the restoration of power for those who lost electricity during Hurricane Sandy, in the Situation Room of the White House, Oct. 30, 2012. John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Alyssa Mastromonaco, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, listen at right. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/photogallery/october-2012-photo-day
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You need to take the ‘All Hat And No Cattle’ Bush the Lesser approach.

It was Aug. 29, McCain’s 69th birthday, and on the tarmac, Bush presented his old political rival with a cake. The two posed, holding the cake up for cameras, and within seconds, went their separate ways. The cake, melting in the 110-degree Arizona heat, was left behind, uneaten.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2008/04/24/22270/flashback-as-katrina-raged-mccain-celebrated-69th-birthday-with-bush/?mobile=nc
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Here a fellow named George W. Bush is having a delightful time playing a guitar given to him by country singer Mark Wills after a visit to Naval Base Coronado in sunny southern California. It’s fun to be president.
So you see Mr. President? That is how you monitor a hurricane. I know presidentializeing is hard work. You need to relax no matter what is happening.
So take a few tips from Bush The Lesser.
Relax pretend to play some guitar, and have some cake. Even if you don’t eat it.
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Romney’s Magic Whiteboard

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Maybe he should have kept the Etch-a-Sketch.

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“Just follow these easy instructions and soon you to, will be putting money in off shore accounts.”

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When I become President…

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We need to keep saying over and over…President Obama’s campaign should take the high road and campaign like an adult.

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What to do or say when asked about taxes.

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Hmmm…My pyramid shaped vault is almost full.

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