koj
Well-known member
I got this in an email. Obviously there are comparative differences between the hurricanes and the recent blizzard (but major disasters none the less), but the human reactions and expectations are vastly different.
South Dakota News Bulletin
This text is from a county emergency manager out in the
Middle and Eastern Parts of South Dakota after the storm.
Amusing, if it were not so true...
WEATHER BULLETIN
Up here in South Dakota we just recovered from a 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
10's of thousands.
FYI:
George Bush did not come....
FEMA staged nothing....
No one howled for the government...
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....
Phil Cantori of the Weather Channel did not come....
And Geraldo Rivera did not move in.
Nope, we just melted snow for water, sent out caravans to pluck people
out of snow engulfed cars, 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 '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.
South Dakota News Bulletin
This text is from a county emergency manager out in the
Middle and Eastern Parts of South Dakota after the storm.
Amusing, if it were not so true...
WEATHER BULLETIN
Up here in South Dakota we just recovered from a 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
10's of thousands.
FYI:
George Bush did not come....
FEMA staged nothing....
No one howled for the government...
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....
Phil Cantori of the Weather Channel did not come....
And Geraldo Rivera did not move in.
Nope, we just melted snow for water, sent out caravans to pluck people
out of snow engulfed cars, 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 '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.
