Has anybody got this West Virginia snow storm e-mail?

[TNDemo]

My brother the lemming sent me this. Has there even been a snowstorm in WV in the past two weeks? I looked on Snopes and could not find this.

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This text is from a county emergency manager out in Philippi,
West Virginia after the recent snowstorm last week in northern WV.


WEATHER BULLETIN

Up here in the hills we just recovered from a Historic event ---
may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a
historic blizzard of up to 10" inches of snow and winds to 30 MPH that
broke trees in half, , closed all roads, isolated scores of communities
and cut power to 80% of the County. This began October 25th and as of
10/31/05 many are still without power and of course no email.

FYI:

George Bush did not come....
FEMA staged nothing....
No one howled for the government...
No one even uttered an expletive on TV...
Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.....
No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House....
No one looted....
Phil Cantori of the Weather Channel did not come....
And Geraldo Rivera did not move in.

Nope, we just melted snow for water, sent out caravans to pluck people out
of snow engulfed cars, fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns
or Aladdin lamps, and put on an extra layer of clothes because up here it
is 'work or die'. We did not wait for some affirmative action government
to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program
that trades votes for 'sittin at home' checks.

Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this
early...we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.

"In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 48
degrees North Latitude, 90% most of the world's social problems
evaporate."

[WritingIsMyReligion]

1. Well, we "coldies" to seem to be very hardy at times.

But I think people would notice if a snowstorm blew in.

Weird.

[MsAnthropy]

2. This is racist bullshit

People don't usually drown when it snows

[LynneSin]

3. I got it but it was for North Dakota

And I suspect the ignorant person who created this has no clue about the differences between a snowstorm and a category 5 hurricane. If given a choice I'd rather suffer through a blizzard (which I have) because at least I can stay inside my home throughout the duration. If a Cat5 was hitting my home I would have to evacuate and I would probably lose everything that I own.

[Left Is Write]

20. I'd recognize it as BS anyway, but especially for North Dakota.

10 inches a blizzard of historic proportions? :rofl: In North Dakota, 10 inches of snow is just Tuesday morning.

[dubyaD40web]

4. "George Bush did not come.... "

Hahahaha!!!! Give him 10 days, he'll be there!! Same goes for FEMA.

[eyepaddle]

5. Go to snopes and replace "West Virgina" with

"North Dakota" and there you are.

One dead giveaway is the longitude--48 north is awfully close to the Canadian border. West Virginia is quite a bit south of that. Just for reference the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and Saint Paul) are pretty much on the 45th parallel.

More lazy right wing crap.

[RayOfHope]

6. It's "Jim Cantore" of The Weather Channel, not "Phil Cantori". n/t

[Thtwudbeme]

7. MY GOD!!!! 30 MPH winds!!!!

OK, seriously, what kind of pansy sends out an email like that?

I would hit "reply all" and tell anyone who reads it and believes it that they are a pantywaist.

I know, my language is sexist

[MsAnthropy]

13. ROFL! I hadn't caught that--that's hilarious!

30 mph is a breeze

[Left Is Write]

21. No kidding.

I'm still laughing at the thought of that being a "a storm of Biblical proportion"!

[eyepaddle]

8. Here's the link

http://www.snopes.com/katrina/soapbox/dakota.asp

[madinmaryland]

9. They did get 10" of snow, but that

is about the only thing that was true about the news blurb. It was in the mid 50's the next day, and the snow was soon gone. There may have been some power outages.

[underpants]

10. "affirmative action government " I was in WV this weekend

First it is really odd that someone would post this because several people offered that they had had no snow so far this fall. Is it odd NOT to have snow yet I thought....anyway

Something must be in the air there because I heard several comments from relatives who have NEVER uttered anything close to racist before as long as I know. I even heard the "N" word once-I told them not around me thanks and never around my daughter GOT IT? they got it.

I have said this before and I will say it again here: don't be shocked if the "N" word pops out sometime in the near future from a national figure. I can SMELL the seeds planted out there and it is looking more and more like the Republicans are going to need something to really change the topic. I'm just telling you. Be prepared they are prepping the "battle field" as it were.

It is odd to hear West Virginians complain about the Federal government and try to blame blacks. I was standing in a Wendys on Saturday and realized something was odd something was amiss......no black people. I'm not used to having NO black people around.

[Midlodemocrat]

11. That mirrors what is happening here a bit.

A lot more racist comments since Katrina. Very troubling, very disturbing to me.

[underpants]

15. Yeah they chance for a discourse about it seems to have turned around

especially sense (just guessing here) the lies are hitting people in the face on a daily basis. They need to lash out at someone ...hell why not the blacks?

I guess. I hadn't been back to WV for several years but it was weird how race got into every conversation. As I said above I was just standing in a Wendys, I thought it would be quicker than the LONG drive through line*, and just suddenly felt that something weird was going on...... funny how you expect the ordinary.

*I could go on about how many WV'ers were at the Wendys but I will let that one pass.

[TNDemo]

16. Go to Idaho or Montana.

I was there this summer and had to be the whitest place I have ever seen in my life.

[underpants]

17. Oh I'm sure

Funny post you had there.

It is a bit odd not to have people of several colors around. I guess I am just used to it.

TWO meth busts back in the hollers near one relative. TWO.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

12. As a West Virginian myself

I can tell you that areas in the northern part of the state DID in fact get hammered during the relevant time period with a most unusual and unseasonable snowstorm.

Saw where someone called the remarks racist. How so?

I see some conservative b/s in it, but no overt racism.

:shrug:

[MsAnthropy]

14. Distinction without a difference, my dear

they are one and the same

[GrpCaptMandrake]

18. Pardon me, darling, but

universal affirmatives are only partially convertible. All racism is conservative b/s, but only some conservative b/s is racism.

:hi:

[MsAnthropy]

19. I disagree

[TheMightyFavog]

22. You can shovel snow, but you can't shovel water.

End of Line.

[blockhead]

23. i'm in N.D.

It was a really,really wet heavy snow, which caused a lot of broken trees to take down many power lines. My power was lost for 36 hours but my house didn't get below 55 degrees.The town was shut down for about a day. No big deal, it is North Dakota.

[sbj405]

24. 48 degrees N, someone better retake geography