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North Dakota News Bulletin
This text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part of North Dakota state after the storm.
Amusing, if it were not so true...
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 24-inches of snow and winds to 50 MPH that broke trees in
half, 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 staged nothing....
No one howled for the government...
No one even uttered an expletive on TV....
Jesse Jackson did not show up....
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% of the worlds social problems
evaporate."
This text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part of North Dakota state after the storm.
Amusing, if it were not so true...
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 24-inches of snow and winds to 50 MPH that broke trees in
half, 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 staged nothing....
No one howled for the government...
No one even uttered an expletive on TV....
Jesse Jackson did not show up....
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% of the worlds social problems
evaporate."