North Dakota news

Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 11:08:10 -0600

This should be required reading for everyone in the country.

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 ands 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 Mayors 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 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 Sean Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found.

Nope, we just melted the snow for water.
We sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed  cars.
The drivers of big trucks 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, 90% of America's social problems evaporate."