Posted by
Christine Gates on Friday, January 19, 2007 11:22:21 PM
My wonderful and hearty sister-in-law in Nebraska sent this (unknown author).
She wrote, "I hadn't thought about it quite
like this... perspective is everything."
And forwarded the following:
Subject: Colorado Blizzard - 2006
This
text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part
of Jefferson
County
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 Streisand, 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.
In
my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of
about 40
degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems
evaporate. It
does seem that way, at least to me.
I
hope this gets passed on. Maybe
SOME people will get the message. The world does Not owe you a
living.
...hmmm? I like to know who wrote this. It's good!