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Rain and floods in Buenos Aires province become a political challenge

Thursday, August 13th 2015 - 07:05 UTC
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Over 20.000 people are estimated to have been evacuated or suffering flooding because of continued rains in Buenos Aires province where a wind alert for the River Plate area and coastal zones is hampering draining possibilities, a situation which started last week and is expected to last until Sunday. Read full article

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  • golfcronie

    Is this Gods revenge for not paying their debts? Where is the Pope when you need him?

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 08:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • brucey-babe

    Wow, Paulcedron 11 has now got running water in his shanty-town shack. Err, I'm not fat so use other expletives on me !

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 08:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • gordo1

    @2 He'll invent some epithet - be ready for a laugh!

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 08:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    Doesn't this happen every year?

    Haven't they figured out what causes this..... after nearly 500 years.

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 10:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    And Scioli goes to Italy during the height of the floods. He's the Governor, his province and his people.

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 10:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    Old news, it made The Daily Telegraph on Monday.

    Uruguay are still sending electricity through the cable in the Plate to support the dumb fuck 'Brothers' even though they haven't paid an arsewipe for any of it going back over 2 years.

    Loved the picture of the argie in his little boat, at least his three dogs knew were he was going if he didn't.

    And of course TDC is the leader in SA!

    HA, HA, HA, pillocks.

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 10:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • The Voice

    Ha ha, this should make Potty Paul feel at home. He is used to 'floaters' from his surfing exploits, there must be plenty now. Still looking forward to 'welcoming' him landing his hang glider, or, was he coming by canoe? He seems to have gone very quiet - twat.

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 12:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Where oh where has all the U$ gone that was supposed to upgrade infrastructure.
    Caymens?
    Seychelles?

    Someone should have tracked CFK's rented jets.

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 02:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Vestige

    Bristol channel.
    New-Orleans.

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 02:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    9. This wasn't a Cat5 hurricane.
    Dufus

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 02:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • The Major

    The wicked witch of the south is personally monitoring the situation. WTF does that mean? get of your ugly backside bitch and get out of your comfy pink palace and do something, you lazy bent cow.

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 02:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • chronic

    70 kph?

    Question: What do you call a day like that on the Great Plains?

    Answer: Thursday

    Poor rotting roadkillians. lol.

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 03:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    12. Its the apathy of the population that allows this to continue for generations.
    These Rgs are so beat down they don't know when they're getting spit on by their Pols.
    These disgusting Ks are laughing at the peasants all the way to their Seychelles bank.

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 03:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Vestige

    10 - correct, it was heavy rains, and what of it.
    Doofus.

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 03:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Klingon

    Yep I was driving through 30 cms of water to get out of my barrio this week.
    Hasn't really affected me much though, but everyone's lawns are like a swamp

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 03:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    14. Bahahahaha. The apathy of your citizenry allow the Pigs running the country do whatever they want while the population literally drowns.
    What an extremely sad place.

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 04:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Vestige

    16 - Louisiana has been suffering various forms of flood damage for decades.
    Does that mean the US citizenry is apathetic and allows Pigs to run the country while the population literally drowns ?

    What an extremely sad place.

    Bahahahaha.

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 04:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    17. Sante Fe used the u$ they got from WB for flood control to pay salaries.
    Yet nobody is in jail.
    Filthy K pigs.

    Funny I've not heard of any problems in Louisiana for a decade.
    I just got back from NOLA and it was amazing!

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 04:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Tarquin Fin

    @17

    Sure the government can't prevent sudestadas or make it rain (unless they start practising chamanism) but it can certainly use public funds appropriately to finish the drainage works planned since the mid 80's (Only 50% has been executed, most of that during 1983 - 1987 ... guess which party is governing BA province since then?)

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 04:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • chronic

    Does anyone think that the rotting roadkillians could use a little investment in infastructure? Huh?

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 04:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    All these dusty old Troll personas popping up again.
    Wonder why?

    Same brainless K crap tho..
    So that hasn't changed

    Welcome back Sistahs!

    Since you've been gone the Peso is worth half
    Inflation has doubled again
    Debt is, well who really knows, but its not good.
    :)

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 04:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    Vestige ward 9 in New Orleans is still a shit hole and great forgotten, but not to those who live there. Almost 1900 people dies, 1577 in Louisiana primarily from drowning. But Brownie the great equestrian had it under control. No wonder the GOP wants to rid the USA of FEMA, after the way Bush botched that one. The smell of decomposing bodies everywhere was like a WWII war zone.
    I feel for those people.......maybe now they need to see why the K's are useless. Scioli returns only after catching shit. He left at the height of the floods.

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 05:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • golfcronie

    I hope the Argie swimmers are taking advantage of all the water in BA for practice.

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 05:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Tarquin Fin

    @20, @23
    Is that the best commenting you can do? Geez!!

    @21
    Imagine that. They were cellebrating on Monday. Brainless people. So sad ...

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Vestige

    18 - and where did FEMA's money go ?? People going hungry in the stench ridden New Orleans convention center after bush made a promise to residents that he would respond. No corruption in the US govt, no sir.

    (re; decades. pre 2005. 1995, 1965, 1957)

    21 ........And singer still hasn't seen a red cent.

    Sistah.

    :)

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    25 Sistah Think / vestige/voice

    Not that FEMA has anything to do with a blatant example of neglected infrastructure and current Argentina Government corruption- ongoing and unanswered.

    :-)

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 05:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Oh Sistah, are you saying FEMA money was stolen like the WB $ in Argentina?
    I'd love to see a link to that.
    Can you please pass it on?

    Singer has already won by depleting BCRA funds so they have to print pesos to survive. He's bankrupted every Alphabet Soup of Argentina's agency that had their U$ assets replaced by pesos which has given you 40% inflation and 15/1.
    And its still just beginning.
    Rgs will be street fighting over the last bag of beans
    Just like the Venezuelans are doing now

    I hope the K are at least giving swimming lessons
    :)

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 05:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Vestige

    When did I say that ?
    I only commented to blow your theory of an ubermensch united states race out of the watery ruins of the repeatedly flooded state of Louisiana.

    Your predictions sound strangely familiar.

    And your schadenfreude (yes two big words today) has still failed to mature.

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 05:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Are you kidding? My Schadenfreude is in full force! Everything I've been saying for years is coming to pass. Just look at all the “Told ya” posts I've had lately.
    Its only getting more and more delightful to watch Rg news every day.

    BTW were those floods you're referring to correspond to major hurricanes or light rains like in Argentina?

    Can you confirm the K swimming lessons? Are they in the contaminated waters that are currently rushing through the streets or the uber contaminated waters in Tigre?

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 05:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    Vestige is was not corruption as must as incompetence. You put a horseman in charge of disaster planning and you create two disasters. They brought in trailers for the victims that were tainted with toxic chemicals. These are items often cut in budgets....FEMA, USDA inspections, highway funds, education. The more important things keep increasing.....interest and military.

    The flooding in Vermont and western Massachusetts was devastating from Irene. But, it did not get the attention NYC did even though to cost was more because after all......flooding in NYC makes better print.

    The point is Vestige natural disasters happen everywhere........but in Argentina they are magnified because the funds are not invested in infrastructure just like the electrical delivery system there.

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 06:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Vestige

    yankee your numerous, and I mean numerous, psychic visions are along the lines of someone repeatedly reading out a large batch of numbers before every lottery draw and rejoicing when one happens to come up.
    By now B.A should have burned down several times already from rioting over the last few years.

    lol that reminds me of a good few months back when your prediction did in fact come true, but unfortunately the location was slightly off and it was Baltimore that got the riots.

    Still, B for Baltimore, B for Buenos-Aires, that one can go on your list of successes too.

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 06:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    31 vestigethinkvoice

    YB's predictions are coming true, it's just a matter of time...

    By the way - Baltimore has nothing to do with FOOD RIOTS from a failed Argentine economy with 40% ANNUAL inflation, depleted reserves and import restrictions.

    Of course, none of this will affect the troll cheerleaders, as they don't live there.

    Is Dany on Days Off??

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 06:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Klingon

    Here the K's legacy to a tee! http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1818908-un-vagon-chino-abandonado-en-medio-de-la-inundacion

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 08:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    31. Do you know why that is absolutely not true? Because I've argued for years with the Sistahs ( you are one of them) different points about Korruptina and only one of us has been proven correct over time.
    And thats
    me.

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 08:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    Is Vestife trying to compare major storm flooding in other cities that happens randomly but spaced apart by sometimes DECADES with this ANNUAL event in BsAs?

    Or did I misunderstand?

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 09:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Zaphod102

    @5 “And Scioli goes to Italy during the height of the floods. He's the Governor, his province and his people.”

    Scioli has now decided to return from Italy.

    He said he was going to Italy to have some treatment for his missing arm. This want not true and why couldn't he have received the treatment in Argentina?

    He also said he was visiting the Italian government, but they didn't even know he was visiting and the person he claimed he was visiting was out of the country!

    These are not the first times the “speedboat champion” (who won absolutely nothing) has lied. ...and yet people still support him.

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 09:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pete Bog

    Bogbrush's never ending moustache is currently soaking up all the water and sweeping it away.

    It has halted Argentine exports of roadsweeper brushes. manufactured from his upper lip rats.

    The west may have to wait for its streets to be cleaned.

    Hurrah for hero Bogbrush.

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 09:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Vestige

    34 - well my sistah you've never argued CFK's merits/demerits with me thats for sure.
    35 - you missed something, being flooded doesn't make people poopy pants' and you shouldn't laugh at them, because it can happen to any people, it even happened in jolly old England not so long ago.
    36 - some people even supported dubya. Or Blair. Some support that lunatic Trump, some even supported Palin but for non-milf related reasons.

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 09:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    38. I always thought when you talk to one Sistah you talk to them all.

    I'd be glad to chat with you about CFK, she has no “merits” so we can start there...

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 10:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Tarquin Fin

    @39 @38
    Sounds like this is going to be lively. Come on boys!! Bring it on!!

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 10:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • chronic

    Mr. Trump is sitting high and dry this evening. I wonder how much he'll be able to increase his net worth as president? Hmmm . . . . . . .

    Aug 13th, 2015 - 11:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Enrique Massot

    31 vestige
    Yankeeboy's best ever is his prediction of people fighting on Buenos Aires streets over the last bag of...beans!!
    He claims to have lived in Argentina, but those years were lost to yankeeboy. Otherwise he would know how little Argentines care about beans. (Beans are good though). The fight would be over forcing them to eat said beans.

    Aug 14th, 2015 - 12:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    38 Sistah

    “some even supported Palin but for non-milf related reasons.”

    What's a “milf”? Is that a typo?

    39 Prairie-Sistah,
    I suspect that Yankeeboy is far more in tune with the real life in CURRENT Arg. than you - when was the last time you actually visited Arg.?

    Aug 14th, 2015 - 02:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Enrique, apparently a journalist, who doesn't understand a metaphor?

    “a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.”

    Hope that helps.

    Aug 14th, 2015 - 02:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    44 ilsen

    English is a Second Language for Enrique, but he does not seem proficient at it - he rarely argues, he probably can't articulate his thoughts in English fast enough - and is reduced to repeating Peronist dogma.

    Aug 14th, 2015 - 02:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    45 Troy
    and Canada is a Second Chance for him.
    Sadly the old dog doesn't have enough fight in him to return home and put his money where his big mouth is.
    Oh no!

    Aug 14th, 2015 - 03:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    46 ilsen,

    Could be that Enrique was one of those young Communists, like SUPA TUPA Stevie, who was driven from South America by Operacion Condor - forever in exile.

    That would have been in the 70's!

    That would explain his partiality towards the Bolivarian Socialists and Peronists.

    It would also explain his separation from the reality of life in contemporary Argentina.

    Aug 14th, 2015 - 04:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • golfcronie

    @36
    I don't know of any “ treatment ” that can be given to a missing arm, possibly they may give him a new arm or “maintenance” on his old arm, like tightening a few bolts and a bit of grease here and there. But you are right he was probably in italy to see how much he has in his undeclared bank account.( Accounts?) LOL

    Aug 14th, 2015 - 08:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    I told Reekie its a metaphor a long time ago, I explained he could put in bread, flour, sugar, oil, etc etc etc
    Basically everthing they're street fighting over in Venezeula now.

    What I really don't understand is why the Kidiots on this board can't look at Venezuela and see they have implemented the same policies as Argentina a few years before the Ks and with more money so they're on the exact same path and will get the same outcome at a faster rate. They must have a mental block.

    Aug 14th, 2015 - 10:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    “What's a “milf”? Is that a typo?”
    fer fecks sake... what planet have you been living on...
    .....every schoolboy's wet dream....

    Aug 14th, 2015 - 10:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pete Bog

    @43

    “What's a “milf”? Is that a typo?”

    Maybe, maybe not the Yellow Sub or the Rat catcher.

    Though there were loads of squaddies who were game for them.

    Aug 14th, 2015 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    47. Yes that's what all the idiotic K supporting trolls are on this site. They're all commies and haven't been to Argentina since they fled in the 70s. Some are in Scotland, some in Scandinavia and some in Canada.
    Too bad the gov't didn't dispatch them then.

    Aug 14th, 2015 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    50

    You should date more ...,

    Here you go - fill yer boots, or at least your gym sock...

    cougar life.com

    Aug 14th, 2015 - 01:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

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    Aug 14th, 2015 - 07:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    54 ChrisR

    thanks - was just baiting “vestige”/“voice”
    to get a 'cleverer-than-thou' response...

    ....yeah, it worked - he seems very familiar with that stuff.

    Aug 14th, 2015 - 11:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    ...do we believe him...?
    ...I think not...;-))))

    Aug 14th, 2015 - 11:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    yawn... back to your websites...

    Aug 14th, 2015 - 11:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    I'm thinking perhaps a gilf would be more suitable for you....
    Oh dear.....;-)))))

    Aug 15th, 2015 - 12:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    58

    sucked you in and the joke's on you...

    actually, it's probably in your hand !

    Cheery-bye!

    Aug 15th, 2015 - 12:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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