Tuesday, November 29, 2005

WEATHER BULLETIN

For those of you who are not aware, North Dakota and southwestern Montana got hit with their first blizzard of the season about 3 weeks ago. Colorado was getting stuff this Thanksgiving weekend.

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


Amusing...


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 an 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.



  • George Bush did not come....

  • FEMA did nothing....

  • No one howled for the government...

  • No one even uttered an expletive on TV...

  • Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.....

  • No news anchors moved in.

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.

Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this early...we know we live in a place where this kind of thing can happen. So we've learned how to deal with it ourselves.

Everybody is doing just fine at the present. Relief is on the way.

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