More Drone Footage of Flooding Devastation in Darren’s Hometown

Texas friends, you've been awesome to me knowing my mind is on what's happening with my friends and family back in my home town of Baton Rouge. Specifically, this

I showed it to Webmaster Jason and he said, "Hey look at that house, the water's almost in it." It was my parents' house.

Jason also asked if my parents lived near a body of water. I told him no, they lived near a public golf course, and that was it under all that brown water.

Here's more footage of my folks' neighborhood and adjacent properties along Bayou Manchac, BTW, that gigantic castle-like house under construction shown at the end is not my family home, I assure you. We've also never owned a barn, so that's not us either.

It genuinely hurts to see these images. The establishment back east and the media elites expect us to fall in line with their way of thinking but the only time they give a darn is when an event fits their agenda, their narrative, their political and social strategies.

Maybe this is the price to be paid for the Alton Sterling incident. Maybe Baton Rouge wore out our sympathy card when our cops were slaughtered. Whatever reason, this ongoing story is falling behind Ryan Lochte's drunken misadventures and statues of naked Donald Trump.

This isn't the first time. BR was largely ignored during the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav. It's unfathomable, a major American city in the dark was apparently not news. Now, here we geaux again.

News media and President Obama, you should've been there. Your absence is as inexcusable and callous as it is inexplicable. It may be too late.

Mr. Trump, Secretary Clinton, and, yes, Governor Johnson, you're welcome to visit but if you're not wearing jeans and shrimp boots, and you keep safely behind your handlers in your insulated [pant]suit and refuse to shake people's hands without gloves.This is not your moment. No close-ups, Mr. DeMille.

For those who say this doesn't matter,  these hurting Louisianans are also Americans, just as much as any of the other 49 states. Louisiana taxpayers pay more in taxes to the feds than the government gives us back each year in the form of services. I don't want to say the feds have a debt to repay Louisiana for their inadequacy year after year, but some folks might.

Media attention drives donations from all over the world, and last time I checked we have a lot of folks who need assistance. Those who believe we can do it all alone, you are ignorant of the massive scale of this disaster as much as the media. You climate change obsessives, your prattling on about something you cannot decisively prove about a weather event which has already occurred adds more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere when you should be talking about assisting children who lost all their clothing in the flooding. People need help, that should be easy to grasp.

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