RadioBanter - msg from emergency manager

North Dakota News

This text is from a county emergency manager
out in the western
part of North Dakota state 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 Mayor's 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 - 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
Mathew and No Geraldo Rivera

* No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand,
No Hollywood types
to be found

And 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 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% most of the
world's social problems
evaporate."

Merry Christmas

And

Happy New Year