From: Ellen K. 

Received this from a friend:

WEATHER BULLETIN:

Up here, in the "Mile-Hi City", we just recovered from an
Historic event---  may I even say a "Weather Event" of
"Biblical Proportions" --- with an  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.

And now we have braced and are involved with #2 in less than 2 weeks!

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.

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'Reilly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo  Rivera.

No Sean Penn, No Barbra 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
48 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.

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