[myboynoah]

I guess you just don't like the answers you're getting, Cali.

I don't remember a huge outcry here.

Some reasons for a very different response nationwide to the midwest flooding:

The flooded are not blaming everyone else for their plight.
Local government initial response is not to blame federal government.
The media is hyping local cooperation versus any blaming that might exist.
Local governments are better engaged and functioning in dealing with the disaster.
Better cooperation between local and federal governments.
Images of communities working hard to prepare for the potential disaster and then save their stuff plays better than a community saying "OK now, come save us."
Lack of break down in rule of law.
The New Orleans logistics problems are not there.
Most of the midwest flooding is farm land.
Significant differences in population densities (those affected).
Many of those flooded before learned and rebuilt above the flood plain, using the plain for farming.

New Orleans was a disaster waiting to happen, and many had reported on that for years. The city had been lucky many times before. It's luck ran out. That they were so ill-prepared for the inevitable, and then abandoned all responsibility and started pointing fingers does not play well with outside observers.

Water from the Great Salt Lake "crushing" SLC homes after an earthquake? You need to bone up on your Utah geography. Makes me question your assertion that most Utahns don't have earthquake insurance. If they don't, I haven't much sympathy. I even have it here.