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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: SHawk on January 10, 2006, 07:34:56 PM
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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."
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Interesting!
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Nobody noticed North Dakota? Wow, whodathunkit?!
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Yep, my guess is there were no gang related Helicopter snipings in North Dakota.
Karaya
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George Bush does not care about Nodaks!!!
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I always wondered about that. Is that the plural form of North Dakota? Or the possessive person form?
I.E. Philadelphia --> Philadelphians.
North Dakota --> Nodak.
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What's funny, is twice as many people lived in New Orleans compared to all those who live in North Dakota. New Orelans covers 363.5 square miles with a population density of 2711 per mile while North Dakota covers 68,994 square miles with a population density of 9.31 per square mile. I bet most in North Dakota didn't have snow piled up INSIDE thier houses past the first floor either, and would have had to hike through the snow for a day or so to loot their neighbor. Real apples to apples there.
Now, I do disagree with that "What are you going to do for me!" degree of helplessness shown by some in N.O., but this is just another prime example of the "lets push a button for the intellectually lazy" content developed both intentionally and not intentionally in so many areas.
Charon
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Of course charon is correct here. Because every single square mile of North Dakota has exactly 9.31 people in it.
There can't possibly be areas where more people gather! And there can't possibly be places where there is only open land!
BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE SQUARE MILE OF NORTH DAKOTA HAS EXACTLY 9.31 PEOPLE IN IT.
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Originally posted by lasersailor184
Of course charon is correct here. Because every single square mile of North Dakota has exactly 9.31 people in it.
There can't possibly be areas where more people gather! And there can't possibly be places where there is only open land!
BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE SQUARE MILE OF NORTH DAKOTA HAS EXACTLY 9.31 PEOPLE IN IT.
Hmmm Charon, what happens when you have 2 sq miles and 19 people?:confused:
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18.62 people in 2 sq. miles:aok
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Uhhhh Right ...
http://www.snopes.com/katrina/soapbox/dakota.asp
:noid
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I bet most in North Dakota didn't have snow piled up INSIDE thier houses past the first floor either, and would have had to hike through the snow for a day or so to loot their neighbor. Real apples to apples there.
Flood of 1996 Charon. Hit Fargo/Moorhead a bit, but devestated Grand Forks.
Very similar situation to what happened to NO, except for the air tempurature.
No one looted, fema did come in, and help a bit. Had some trailers for some folks to live in. Few folks did get low interest loans to help with the rebuild.
The vast majority of those flooded simply waded back in, cleaned up, rebuilt, and went on with their lives.
Its taken a few years, but 10 years later you'd never know there was a problem.
I doubt the same will be said for New Orleans.
City did condem some houses closest to the river. Built a better dike/levee system. 20 or so houses were torn down or moved, area turned into a park.
Problem is if you took all of New Orleans thats below sea level, turn it into a park. There is virtually no New Orleans left.
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Originally posted by Ghosth
Problem is if you took all of New Orleans thats below sea level, turn it into a park. There is virtually no New Orleans left.
Thats not a problem, it is a solution.
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No one looted.
Only an idiot would loot in ND after it being coverd and snow and only those with trucks with snow plows and snow tires could get around..
:rolleyes:
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Originally posted by lasersailor184
Of course charon is correct here. Because every single square mile of North Dakota has exactly 9.31 people in it.
There can't possibly be areas where more people gather! And there can't possibly be places where there is only open land!
BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE SQUARE MILE OF NORTH DAKOTA HAS EXACTLY 9.31 PEOPLE IN IT.
Wouldn't .31 of a person get a little messy? :lol
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.31 of a person =
(http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/entertainers/child-stars/gary-coleman/81gary1.jpg)
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Originally posted by RightF00T
.31 of a person =
(http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/entertainers/child-stars/gary-coleman/81gary1.jpg)
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"What you talkin' about Willis?"
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Originally posted by MrBill
Uhhhh Right ...
http://www.snopes.com/katrina/soapbox/dakota.asp
:noid
eeeewwwwww A drive by snopes link that doesn't say it's true or false but multiple. :aok
lest we get the crowed that thinks a snopes link automatically means an un-truth! ;)
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Of course they didn't complain, they choose to live in ND...I mean how could they tell if a natural disaster hit them??
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BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE SQUARE MILE OF NORTH DAKOTA HAS EXACTLY 9.31 PEOPLE IN IT.
Did you really want to attract so much attention to this statement? The Chicago suburb where my parents live is comprable in population to North Dakoata. The biggest cities are not "big." There is no comparison, by any stretch of the imagination, in population density. Nor, is there a comparion to a snow storm and getting flooded into homelesness in the course of a week.
Flood of 1996 Charon. Hit Fargo/Moorhead a bit, but devestated Grand Forks.
Very similar situation to what happened to NO, except for the air tempurature.
No one looted, fema did come in, and help a bit. Had some trailers for some folks to live in. Few folks did get low interest loans to help with the rebuild.
The vast majority of those flooded simply waded back in, cleaned up, rebuilt, and went on with their lives.
That's a very good comparison to make and an appropriate one to look at, IMO. You would have to look at the rest of the differences. New Orleans had existing crime and poverty conditions, and those that could evacute evacutated and those without common sense, a car, money for a bus (or too far back in line to get the last seat on the bus) were left. The full demographics of the city were represented, but I really bet it was weighed heavily in favor of the "down and out" to downright trouble maker crowd. And, even if they were the self sufficient type, what could they do? They then had to spend days locked in the wasteland (bodies piling up at collection points) with no real authority on the street, no way or place to pitch in or even walk out, no small town "know your neighbor" infrastructure and no real communications with the outside world. I wonder how things went in the rest of the damaged area, poverty ridden in many parts as well with a mix of people, that was not facing the water locked situation N.O. faced.
Of course it could just be one of those black folk vs. white folk/lib vs. conservative/For vs. Chevy feel good things too.
Charon