OldDog/NewTricks
Well-known member
The way it ought to be!!!
For those of you who are not aware, North Dakota and southwestern Montana got hit with their first blizzard of the season a couple of weeks ago. This text is from a County Emergency Manager out in the western part of North Dakota after the storm. Amusing, if it were not so true.......
WEATHER BULLETIN
Up here in the Northern Plains we just recovered from an 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 tens of thousands.
FYI:
President George Bush did not come, and was not expected to come...
President George Bush did not cause the storm...
Global warming did not cause the storm...
FEMA staged nothing...
No one howled for the government to do something...
No one even uttered an expletive on TV...
Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards...
No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House...
No one looted...
Jim Cantori of the Weather Channel did not come...
And Geraldo Rivera did not move in to be on camera.
Nope, we just melted snow for water, sent out caravans to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars and trucks, checked on our neighbors, 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 take care of yourself and others and 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 'sit at home' checks.
Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this early, we know it can happen and we know how to deal with it ourselves.
"In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 45.25 degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems evaporate."
For those of you who are not aware, North Dakota and southwestern Montana got hit with their first blizzard of the season a couple of weeks ago. This text is from a County Emergency Manager out in the western part of North Dakota after the storm. Amusing, if it were not so true.......
WEATHER BULLETIN
Up here in the Northern Plains we just recovered from an 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 tens of thousands.
FYI:
President George Bush did not come, and was not expected to come...
President George Bush did not cause the storm...
Global warming did not cause the storm...
FEMA staged nothing...
No one howled for the government to do something...
No one even uttered an expletive on TV...
Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards...
No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House...
No one looted...
Jim Cantori of the Weather Channel did not come...
And Geraldo Rivera did not move in to be on camera.
Nope, we just melted snow for water, sent out caravans to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars and trucks, checked on our neighbors, 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 take care of yourself and others and 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 'sit at home' checks.
Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this early, we know it can happen and we know how to deal with it ourselves.
"In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 45.25 degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems evaporate."
