Things NOLA needs to learn.
North Dakota
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 Mathews 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 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% most of he world's
social problems evaporate."
