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[nebraska-doesnt-exist]

ya'know, maybe the reason rural, small-town people don’t trust national media is because national news outlets pretty much ignore 85% of the country.

nebraska is literally flooded, at least one person has died and three are missing, 60 thousand have evacuated… and the first cnn article about this went up like ten minutes ago and only mentioned flooding around omaha.

like. i’m from omaha and i’m frustrated by the lack of attention the rest of our state is getting. someone died, and you’re not going to mention that? how was this not a story worth reporting this morning? are nebraskan farmers and small-town citizens not just as important as the californians displaced by wildfires, or southern/east coast people affected by hurricanes?

when we complain about nebraska being ignored, we’re not really talking about not having shows set in nebraska, as much as we might want that. we’re talking about this — thousands of people losing their homes, their livelihood, and yet no one seems to think it’s worth mentioning.

when hurricanes devastated the south last year, nebraskans donated what we could to help those affected. we sent trucks filled with donated items and coordinated with shelters and organizations to make sure we actually sent things that were needed. i’m just saying, it would be nice to see some of that support in turn. even if it’s just bringing attention to this.

[cashmere-cat-attacks]

At the very least you would think that the farmlands that feed most of the US being flooded would be important to someone other then us Nebraskans. But we are ignored. At best Omaha is briefly mentioned. At worst we’re ridiculed and looked down upon because we’re just some dumb hicks with a boring state and a laughing stalk of a football team.

I’m terrified for my fellow Nebraskans because even us in the city don’t have enough money to be the only ones who donate. This needs more recognition because more people will die because of exposure after the fact.

[moon-bell5]

USA Today article

Omaha World Herald Article

Article with links to various places to donate

[iamthepandaprince]

I live in Fremont Nebraska. We are literally a fucking island right now. There is no way in or out of town. Half our town is flooded and the water is still expecting to rise. Two of my friends have lost their homes and one lost pets. 

The thing about the flooding is that the other half of Nebraska is experiencing blizzards. Our whole state is in anarchy right now. There’s no water left in fremont. Two of our leveys have broke and our dam is being held together through sheer fucking will. This is fucking terrifying okay? Even if me and my family wanted to leave we CAN’T. If fremont get’s flooded anymore where are we going to evac to? We can’t. We can’t get out of town. Why has this not been a fucking emergency yet?

Currently my family is okay, but were close to losing our home too. 

If you can spare anything please. PLEASE Donate. Nebraska is in need of a lot of help right now…

[blankinsidecards]

I live smack-dab in the middle of the state, four hours away from Omaha, and these are some pictures my friends and family have taken.

There are so many bridges out, so many roads impassable. Hundreds of people are stranded.

See this little island? Zoom in. Those are cows. Stranded, freezing, with no food, in the middle of calving season.

People have been losing 3 out of every 5 baby cows, because they are freezing in the mud before farmers and ranchers can even get to them.

This is my Uncle’s house, on the left

It’s a two story, and that water is six feet below the roof. They have my grandparent’s camper parked next the the barn (on the right) and you can’t even see it. My uncle has three young kids, the oldest of which has severe cerebral palsy, and now they’re living out of a hotel. My aunt only had time to pack two suitcases for the five of them. They had to leave everything else.

Really you guys, Nebraska has been flooded before, we have tornadoes every year, our temperatures are just as extreme as Chicago or Phoenix - but this is so much worse than any of that. I know there are worse things going on in the world, but this is happening too, and it’s going to impact so much more than most people think it will. Nebraska is a huge supplier of beef, pork, corn, and soybeans. Just in my hometown we have a huge Tyson processing plant that is weeks behind in production because the trucks can’t get through, and it’s costing a lot of people their jobs. This is serious.

[mad-hare]

This seems like something the president should declare a national emergency.

The damage caused by this, some farmers are saying is not repairable. With the huge loss in livestock and damage (many in this region already super poor from bad prices in recent years) many of these farmers will never be able to return to their livelihoods, without help… this is going to cause serious problems for all of the USA . A lot of farmers have tried to just sell off as many animals as possible to slaughter instead of trying to see through these coming weeks (no food, or safety, for the animals) and it’s already caused a 40% drop in beef prices, just because of this storm… so they are losing money no matter what they do. It’s horrifying to read about.

[basil0saurus95-main]

I…

Oh my god.

[pikalex88]

I just went through Nebraska myself last week and saw all this damage - and truly, there was no word of it in California. Worth signal boosting, and helping if you’re able.

[beeskneesprepqueen]

Don’t know if this analogy was made before but...

Do you remember in school when we’d all be chatting in class and then suddenly someone burst out laughing & the teacher would tell us all to shut up? Then we'd shut up and then some people would start murmuring again and then the teacher gives the whole class break punishment because those few people made noise. 

I think the ''all men are trash'' movement is like that. Yeah guys were misogynistic because that was the norm and women started speaking up and telling guys to knock it off and some of the decent ones actually did, but a few self-centred little bastards decided they didn't care what women thought and continued their shitty ways and women were like ''alright we've told you enough times we didn't like this and you STILL do it - that's it. you're all just pieces of shit ain't it?'' 

Going back to my analogy, after the teacher gave the whole class punishment some of the kids who were actually quiet start getting defensive. ‘’Why do all of us have to get punishment? I wasn’t even talking, I swear!’’ Then the teacher turns around and says ‘’Well if you didn’t want to get punished you would have told the others who made the ruckus to zip it like everyone else’’. 

And that same thing happens here. As soon as women go ‘’all men are trash’’ good guys start saying stuff like ‘’not all men’’ and then women go ‘’well then why don’t you tell your sexist friends to stop their shit if you know better’’.

In the classroom scenario, the kids who were quiet would all be upset that the ones who made noise got all of them in trouble and some might think the teacher’s just a big fat meanie for not punishing the wrongdoers and leaving the rest of the innocent ones alone. But in their next class when those noise-makers start their shenanigans the rest of the class turns around to tell them that they don’t want to get in trouble again for their shit. So those loudmouths shut up and act bitter the rest of the lesson and no-one gets in trouble. 

That’s kind of what’s supposed to happen here. When other actually decent men see that there are some shitty guys doing horrible stuff to women they’ll tell them to stop because they’re bringing their name down. If enough men do it soon those sexist cunts will be forced to keep their demoralising ways inside them and will be bitter about not being free to be horrible people. Then there’ll be no reason for women to say ‘’all men are trash’’ anymore. 

[seekndestroyy]

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