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Edited on Sun Dec-17-06 11:38 AM by Paranoid Pessimist
Weather Bulletin - North Dakota
Priceless. Think about this for a moment.
North Dakota News
This text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part of North Dakota state after a snowstorm.
WEATHER BULLETIN
Up here, in the Northern Plains, we just recovered from a Historic event--- may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands.
FYI:
George Bush did not come.
FEMA did nothing.
No one howled for the government.
No one blamed the government.
No one even uttered an expletive on
TV.
Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.
Our Mayor did not blame Bush or anyone else.
Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else, either.
CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC did not visit - or report on this category 5 snowstorm. Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.
No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House.
No one looted.
Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something.
Nobody expected the government to do anything, either.
No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera.
No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found.
Nope, we just melted the snow for water.
Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars.
The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny.
Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snowbound
families.
Families took in the stranded people - total strangers.
We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns.
We put on extra layers 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% of the world's social problems evaporate."
It does seem that way, at least to me.
I hope this gets passed on.
Maybe SOME people will get the message. The world does NOT owe you a living.
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Obviously this was aimed at all those "New Orleans Negros" from Katrina who obviously should have not yelled for help. They should have organized bucket brigades to drain the toxic floodwaters out of their streets. They could have scraped the mold off the damaged buildings and used to to brew up a nutritious Louisiana gumbo to feed themselves. For water, they should have gathered up the dead bodies and built a funeral pyre and used the flame to power a giant still (for sure there were experienced bootleggers among those stranded on buildings) to make safe drinking water. The houses should have been rebuilt with the trash at hand, building codes notwithstanding. If there aren't enough tools, well, there must be some rocks around that could be used hammer nails.
And how 'bout those crybaby Tsunami survivors in Thailand, expecting the rest of the world to come to their aid. They should have had more pride. Outside help, especially from any government, is Communism and they should have done it themselves, the "real" American way. How long would it have taken them to haul the debris off the beaches and scrounge up enough stuff to build successful tourist meccas without money and with only the leftover wreckage on hand.
I'm sure none of the folks up in the "North Country" will apply for any government assistance to rebuild what their "Biblical" storm destroyed. They're way too proud and independent for that. If roads were damaged, they of course will not expect government to fix them; they'll show us all their individuality by getting out there and doing the paving themselves. Paving parties, like old fashioned 19th century barn raisings. I'm sure that if one cent of tax money comes their way in the wake of their storm they'll demonstrate their independent pride by insisting on indignantly sending it back with a card that says, "Screw you; we take care of ourselves and that makes us BETTER than you dependent wimps."
I hope whatever smug "North Country" right wing redneck who wrote the above never experience a disaster bigger than their independent neighbors can cope with, such as the one that's about to come down on us all from the hopelessly trashed environment.
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