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01-15-2010, 05:47 AM | #1 |
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Emergency Weather Bulletin
This text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan after a severe snow storm ...
The Mining Journal, Marquette, MI WEATHER BULLETIN Up here in the Northern part of Michigan 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: 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 Mayor's 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 snow storm. Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards. No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House. 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'Rielly, 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 SUV's 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 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.
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01-15-2010, 06:12 AM | #2 |
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Good post rman! I may not sound too compassionate but I don't want my tax money going to Haiti, or any other crap hole when we here in America have many who could use some help. We keep getting the fact that they live in squaller and eat mud cookies pushed down our throat. Well there has got to be a lot of building material laying around, build yourself another squaller house Mud should be readily available since y'all have harvested every tree in your country to make and sell charcoal, make cookies. We have elderly people here not taking meds because they can't afford both meds and food. Charity begins at home.
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01-16-2010, 05:43 PM | #3 |
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01-17-2010, 06:44 AM | #4 |
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If our tax money went to help our people instead of being used to make Politicians rich and wasteful, we would have plenty to help anyone in need.
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01-17-2010, 10:05 AM | #5 |
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you are so right Calvin
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