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    Post by Admin Wed Feb 02, 2011 9:59 pm

    from an email

    Maybe we should make South Dakota the capitol of the USA.

    This text is from a county emergency manager in South Dakota


    Daily News WEATHER BULLETIN



    Up here in the northern part of South Dakota we just recovered from an historic event --- may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a blizzard of up to 25 inches of snow and winds to 50 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:

    Obama 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 Obama or anyone else.

    Our Governor did not blame Obama or anyone else either.


    CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, or NBC did not

    visit - or even report on this Category 5 snowstorm.


    Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.


    No one asked for a FEMA trailer home.

    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'Reilly,
    No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera.
    No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Brad Pitt,

    No Hollywood types to be found.




    Nope, 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 snowbound 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 is not usual, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.





    I hope this gets passed on.


    Maybe SOME people will get the message

    .....
    The world does NOT owe you a living.




    12/29/10


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