(Email
received 1-9-07)
Denver Post: This
text is from a county emergency manager out in the central
part of Colorado after today's 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & didn't ask for a penny. Local restaurants
made food & the police & 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 & 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.
