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[KansasHeadHunter]

North Dakota News

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

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's 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 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 Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found And


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 has never fallen this early...we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves...

 

[DOR]

I'm with ya on the intent here....but probably comparing apples to oranges! People still had a home left, and I bet not to many died.

 

[rgrummer]

kansasheadhunter,
I agree with DOR...

but put this on Ted Nugents 'General' forum and you'll get all kinds of people from both sides in a heated debate...should be fun to watch

I think you are pretty much preaching to the choir on this web site...

 

[crash]

id have to agree with dor too! have been stuck in a blizard myself, with my folks spent the night in a farm house 2 bed room with about 40 something people. (cramped) snow drifts as high as telephone poles thank god these people let us into their home, we would have froze to death. i think it was in 1977 nw corner of iowa, they said in paper it was a freak storm. anyway i will never forget it.

 

[G6]

Think it was the year I moved to Bellevue 1978, I remember it well. I had a 50 Chevy and it drifted over it completely.

 

[Rackaddict]

I love the story my Dad tells. We lived in Clear Lake at the time and I was just a tot. Dad went out to get some milk and grub for his "babies" due to the blizzard on it's way. While he was out, the snow hit, and bad. The car got stuck and he began to walk back home. He said he could only make out an occasional porch light to find his way through the snow storm. While he was walking he tripped and fell. He looked to see what had tripped him and it was the TOP of a clothes line pole. He finally made it home and I ungratefully guzzled the milk without a care in the world.

 

[G6]

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I love the story my Dad tells. We lived in Clear Lake at the time and I was just a tot. Dad went out to get some milk and grub for his "babies" due to the blizzard on it's way. While he was out, the snow hit, and bad. The car got stuck and he began to walk back home. He said he could only make out an occasional porch light to find his way through the snow storm. While he was walking he tripped and fell. He looked to see what had tripped him and it was the TOP of a clothes line pole. He finally made it home and I ungratefully guzzled the milk without a care in the world.

[/ QUOTE ] Hey now your making me feel old Rack.

It was a bad one though, kind of cool though when you don't get that kind of snow here. I drove out on the gravel roads and I remember one spot where it was drifted about 8 to 10 feet with the road going through it.

 

[Full Quiver]

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I love the story my Dad tells. We lived in Clear Lake at the time

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Rack, I grew up in Garner. I remember some really big snow storms up there. Haven't seen anything as bad since I've moved from there.

 

[teacher]

As somebody who's been through a Hurricane(my honeymoon in New Orleans) and lived in Iowa all my life. I can gaurantee that there's no comparison between a blizzard and a hurricane. I would much rather ride out a blizzard than a hurricane.

 

[Rackaddict]

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I remember some really big snow storms up there.

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One that I do remember was when we lived in Nora Springs. I was about 5 at the time, so I guess it would have been around 1969 or so. The back of our house faced west with a big open crop field behind it. A blizzard blew in one night and the next morning the back of house was completely covered in a snow drift. It was the most impressive pile of snow I'd ever seen in my young life and still to this day haven't been in a deeper drift. It sure was fun trying to knock it all down.