Wally Dog
Well-known member
(For those of you who are not aware, North Dakota and southwestern Montana
got hit with their first blizzard of the season a couple of weeks ago)
This text is from a 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 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.
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 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 it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.
Everybody is fine.
got hit with their first blizzard of the season a couple of weeks ago)
This text is from a 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 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.
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 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 it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.
Everybody is fine.
