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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 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 demanded the government do something.
Nobody expected the government to do anything either.
No Larry King, No Katie Couric, No Oprah,
No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera.
No Sean Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No
Hollywood types to be found.
And we just melted the snow for water.
Sent out caravans of SUVs 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,
90% 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.

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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're still here we may as well dance.