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N8 v2.0

Not the sharpest tool in the shed
Oct 18, 2002
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The Cleft of Venus
North Dakota News

This text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part of North Dakota state after a snowstorm.


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 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 snowstorm. 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.

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 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 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.

 

LordOpie

MOTHER HEN
Oct 17, 2002
21,022
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Denver
So the barrier walls held up against the blizzard?

Oh yeah, they don't need walls that might fail and flood the town.

Yup, apples-to-apples.
 

LordOpie

MOTHER HEN
Oct 17, 2002
21,022
3
Denver
People actually live in North Dakota?
For the longest time, I assume South Dakota was the same as ND. While I've never been to ND and don't know, SD is actually an awesome place! A lot more green than Colorado.
 

Echo

crooked smile
Jul 10, 2002
11,819
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Slacking at work
10 bucks says that:

1) the person attributed to that statement didn't actually write it, and/or

2) the person attributed to that statement is fixin' to run for a higher office as a conservative.
 

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
56,430
22,517
Sleazattle
For the longest time, I assume South Dakota was the same as ND. While I've never been to ND and don't know, SD is actually an awesome place! A lot more green than Colorado.
All I really remember from ND and SD was all the snow and folks whose eyes seemed to be too close together.
 

Fonzie18

Turbo Monkey
That is absurd, I heard that same exact quote on the radio earlier this week. (Oh, BTW. This quote was made by a county emergency manager from South Dakota...I love our media :twitch: )
How can something so ignorant make it on national radio??? Granted, the blizzard was a shocking natural occurrence, but it does happen...I researched past blizzards and found many more storms of superior magnitude that have hit the region over the years(haha, these are just blizzards that have taken place in the March months!!):

http://www.intellicast.com/Almanac/NorthernPlains/March/



Here is an excerpt from a statistical website on Katrina:

On Monday, 29 August 2005, Hurricane Katrina careened into the Gulf Coast, putting 80% of New Orleans under water and bashing the Mississippi coast like it was matchsticks. The nation's most costly natural disaster, it killed more than 1,600 people ... destroyed 200,000 Gulf Coast homes ... displaced about 1 million people. News reports place insured property damage at $25.3 billion in 1.7 million insurance claims -- 975,000 of them in Louisiana.