-----Original Message-----
From: Hudspeth, Judy [mailto:Judy.Hudspeth@cdicorp.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:14 PM
Subject: Denver Post
>
>Denver Post:
>
>This text is from a county emergency manager out in the central part
of
>Colorado after todays 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 Bar bara Striesand, 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.
>
