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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 city Mayors 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 Streisand,
No Brad Pitts, 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.
Our thanks to Arlene Wright-Correll for
sharing this item with us. |