Whizkid Posted January 18, 2006 Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 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 after the recent snow storm. 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's did not blame Bush or anyone else . Our Governor did not blame Bush either CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, or NBC did not visit - or 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 - 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, NoHollywood types to be found And 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 the stranded people - total strangers We Fired up wood stoves Broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns We put on an 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, most 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.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spectre_USA Posted January 18, 2006 Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 Sounds good, but it may not be 100% accurate. Found this on my favorite debunking site, Snopes.com; Origins: On 4 October 2005, portions of Montana, the Dakotas, and Wyoming were hit by an early snowstorm that Shoveling snow knocked out power, closed roads, and dumped up to 2 feet of snow. Some schools were closed by the storm, and thousands of power outages were reported. The National Guard was called out in North Dakota to aid the Highway Patrol in rescuing stranded motorists, of which there were hundreds. In Dickinson, snowplows led emergency vehicles that were used to deliver fuel to a nursing home and to the Police Department to run generators during a power outage. Sam Walker, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Bismarck, North Dakota, said of the storm: "It is, on our records, probably one of the earliest ones, as far as our recorded history goes, in 126, 130 years." But that wasn't the only surprising thing about the storm — only days before, 90 degree temperatures had been recorded in the state (e.g., 92 degrees in Bismarck on 1 October 2005). The e-mail makes the claim of the snowbound Dakotans "No one howled for the government." Yet in a 31 October 2005 letterletter to President Bush, Governor John Hoeven of North Dakota did indeed "request that you declare a major disaster for the State of North Dakota as a result of a severe winter storm/snowfall, accompanied by record-breaking snowfall, rain and high winds, that occurred on October 4-6, 2005." Said request for official disaster status was spurred by an interest in obtaining FEMA assistance (e.g. "Additionally, eleven counties meet the criteria established by the Federal Emergency Management Agency [FEMA] 'for near record snowfall' and should be eligible for assistance with FEMA’s snow policy [9523.1]"). Midwesterners hit by this storm appear to have overcome their short-lived catastrophe without federal assistance (although as of 31 October 2005, North Dakota is seeking to recoup its storm-related expenditures from the government — see the Letter to the President above). However, in comparing response to that weather-related disaster to what overwhelmed New Orleans, it needs be pointed out that the bulk of the digging out from under the snowfall and rescuing stranded motorists from snow-entombed cars fell to the state's police and emergency service workers and the National Guard, not (as the e-mail would have it) to rugged individual citizens who hadn't been "immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for 'sittin at home' checks." The nature and severity of the two disasters were different — the one could be coped with locally, but the other could not. Barbara "one can shovel snow, but one cannot shovel water" Mikkelson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whizkid Posted January 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 Good old Snopes. Didn't think of checking with them,as I received this from a reliable source. However,having said that,I think the reaction to the problem,had it been reversed, would have shown quite a different slant. The N.D's would have rolled up their sleeves and tackled it head on,whereas the N.O's would have sat around and waited for the Spring Thaw,meanwhile screaming that it was all a racial problem! Which it was,in a way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted January 18, 2006 Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 No such thing as a reliable source on the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mane_raptor Posted January 18, 2006 Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 No such thing as a reliable source on the internet. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Do you include your postings on that rather large blanket statement? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No105_Archie Posted January 19, 2006 Report Share Posted January 19, 2006 "In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 48 degrees North Latitude, most of the world's social problems evaporate." It's great to live in Canada eh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted January 19, 2006 Report Share Posted January 19, 2006 Do you include your postings on that rather large blanket statement? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Definitely!!! Even I don't believe the crap that I type!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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