North Dakota News
This following 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 MP that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities
and cut power to tens of thousands. FYI:
o George Bush did not come…
o FEMA did nothing…
o No one howled for the government…
o No one blamed the government
o No one even uttered an expletive on TV…
o Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit
o Our Mayors did not blame Bush or anyone else
o Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else, either
o CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, or NBC did not visit – or report on this Category 5 snow storm
o Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards…
o No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House…
o No one looted…
o Nobody – I mean Nobody demanded the government do something
o Nobody expected the government to do anything, either
o No Larry King, No Bill O’Reilly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera
o No Sean Penn, No Barbra Streisand, No Hollywood types to be found
And,
o Nope, we just melted the snow for water
o Sent out caravans of SUVs to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars
o The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn’t ask for a penny
o Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snow bound families
o Families took in the stranded people – total strangers
o We fired up wood stoves
o Broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns
o We put on an extra layers of clothes because up here it is “Work or Die”
o 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.
o 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% most of the world’s social problems evaporate.”
Hurray for North Dakota. You are my kind of people…..You don’t sit on your rear and cry for someone else
to do it for you. You do what has to be done, yourself. But, unfortunately, you will have to pay, for the rest of your life, for those who are too lazy (slovenly) to do anything for themselves… – H.A.H.
Letter Re: Recent North Plains Blizzard
