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« on: January 14, 2010, 11:50:22 AM » |
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This text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan after a severe snow storm ...
The Mining Journal, Marquette, MI
WEATHER BULLETIN
Up in Northern Michigan we just recovered from an historic event -- a weather event of Biblical proportions -- a blizzard with up to 44" 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 tens of thousands.
FYI:
Obama 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 and Al Sharpton did not visit.
Our Mayor did not blame Obama or anyone else.
Our Governor did not blame Obama or anyone else either.
CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC did not visit or even report on this category 5 snow storm.
Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.
No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House.
No one looted.
Nobody demanded the government do something.
And nobody expected the government to do anything.
No Larry King, No Bill O'Reilly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera.
No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Streisand,
No Brad Pitt, 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 snow bound families.
Families took in 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 is not usual, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.
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