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That's how country people handle things!  The do for themselves, they help 
their neighbors, they don't complain about the government not helping them. 
We've been there and done that right here at home......with the occasional 
major flood, the similarly occasional forest fire, and the rare earthquake 
of great magnitude.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Coss" <coss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:43 PM
Subject: [RC] How True This Is!


> This text is from a county emergency manager in the western part of North 
> Dakota, after the storm. Truly emphasizes that "perspective is reality"
>
> 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 24" inches of snow and winds to 50 MPH that broke trees 
> in half, 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 staged nothing....
> No one howled for the government...
> No one even uttered an expletive on TV...
> Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.....
> No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House....
> No one looted....
> Phil Cantori of the Weather Channel did not come...
> And Geraldo Rivera did not move in.
>
> Nope, we just melted snow for water, sent out caravans to pluck people out 
> of snow engulfed cars, fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns 
> or Aladdin lamps, and put on an extra layer 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% of the worlds social problems evaporate."
>
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