My dad forwarded me this email about the blizzard and the flood in NO...

[Chunkee]

Weather Bulletin - Colorado

Priceless. Think about this for a moment.

Denver News

This is from a county emergency manager in western Jefferson County after a snowstorm.


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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.

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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 Governo r 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 Barbara 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 40 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.

 

[xanis]

*Gets popcorn and lawn chair*

 

[FoBoT]

maybe you don't have enough, people, up there

good luck! :sun:

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Xanis
*Gets popcorn and lawn chair*

*Taps keg, passes Xanis a beer*

This is going to be good!

 

[mugs]

How many billions of dollars of damage did the blizzard cause?

 

[blackllotus]

What an asshole. Hurricane Katrina killed 1000s of people and destroyed tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of homes. It also caused 82 billion dollars worth of damage. The Denver blizzard did nothing even comparable to that.

 

[Runes911]

Originally posted by: Chunkee
Weather Bulletin - Colorado

Priceless. Think about this for a moment.

Denver News

This is from a county emergency manager in western Jefferson County after a snowstorm.


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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.

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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 Governo r 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 Barbara 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 40 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.

This is one of the multiple reasons I am trying to get out of my stupid state.

 

[amish]

i don't understand how sean penn can go from spicolli to the duche that he is now...

 

[vi edit]

Completely different situations. Houses are still liveable and cars are still driveable after being burried in 4 feet of snow.

Not so with water. Especially with 10+ feet of it in places.

 

[loup garou]

This is just about the dumbest thing I've read today...I'd say THE dumbest, but some of my clients just have to be experienced to be believed.

 

[SonnyDaze]

Oh and the cows....don't forget about the cows....

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Completely different situations. Houses are still liveable and cars are still driveable after being burried in 4 feet of snow.

Not so with water. Especially with 10+ feet of it in places.

Indeed.

One of the problems in Katrina was the "hunker down" mentality of so many, it was considerably harder to evacuate them after the fact.

Had the blizzard required a mass evacuation, the same things this stupid forward praises would have been severe liabilities.

Anyone who says these are complarable is looking for a reason to criticise NO, and you really might as well shoot fish in a barrel.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: mugs
How many billions of dollars of damage did the blizzard cause?

for the record because i live here. Denver was managable. The real problem is in the southeastern part of the state near LaJunta. they got absoutly dumped on down there, and a real emergency. its going to be in the hundreds of millions not billions in damage.

also for the record that email forward by the OP is BS. you cant compare the two events at all.

i very seriously doupt that the emergency manager for Jefferson county said something so stupid, if he did he should be fired.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Originally posted by: amish
i don't understand how sean penn can go from spicolli to the duche that he is now...

WTF does Sean Penn have to do with this?

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Citrix

Originally posted by: mugs
How many billions of dollars of damage did the blizzard cause?

for the record because i live here. Denver was managable. The real problem is in the southeastern part of the state near LaJunta. they got absoutly dumped on down there, and a real emergency. its going to be in the hundreds of millions not billions in damage.

also for the record that email forward by the OP is BS. you cant compare the two events at all.

Thank you.

Seems we all agree. Sorry to disappoint the beer and popcorn crowd.

 

[OutHouse]

http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=62515

DENVER (AP) - National Guard helicopters dropped emergency food bundles and bales of hay for people and livestock trapped by snowdrifts as high as rooftops Tuesday after back-to-back blizzards paralyzed the Plains.


At least a dozen deaths were blamed on a weekend storm that knocked out electricity to tens of thousands of people in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma and left herds of cattle without food or water. The blizzard spread a blanket of snow on top of the icy layer left by a storm that hit just before Christmas.

Because of rising temperatures, many highways were clear, but many rural roads remained impassable, and National Guardsmen used Humvees and snowmobiles to reach people trapped in their homes and take them to shelters.

Colorado also launched a haylift in hopes of saving thousands of cattle immobilized by drifts as high as 10 feet. In 1997, a similar storm killed 30,000 in the state.

"Most of my cattle haven't seen food since last Thursday, when the snow started," said Tony Hall, who has 200 head on a ranch near Lamar. "Wherever they were standing when the snow piled up, that's where they are now. Every day, it's getting more crucial."

Colorado and Kansas were trying to find enough helicopters capable of hauling hay bales weighing up to 1,300 pounds, said Don Ament, Colorado's agriculture director. Many helicopters in the state's National Guard fleet are in the Middle East.

"These cattle have already gone a number of days without food and water. They're just going to lay over dead if we don't do something soon," Ament said.

Two Huey and three Black Hawk helicopters dropped 400 bales of hay Tuesday to feed cattle in the hardest-hit areas, Colorado officials said.

National Guard helicopters in the state also dropped Meals Ready to Eat, or military rations, just outside people's houses so they could reach the bundles, Sgt. 1st Class Steve Segin said.

The Rocky Mountain Area Coordination Center also activated a Type 2 Incident Management Team to support operations in southeast Colorado. The team was to report to Lamar to provide support.

In the Oklahoma Panhandle, a dozen troops went door to door in Humvees, checking on rural residents snowed in without power for days. Col. Pat Scully said the priority was to reach people on ranches and farms who might have medical problems.

"We have no reason to believe anybody is hurt, but we did think it was necessary to do some welfare checks," said Michelann Ooten, spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management.

Ice in some areas was even more difficult to deal with than the snow, snapping trees and bringing down power lines. In Nebraska, big portable generators were set up to maintain water service and keep emergency shelters open.

In an aerial tour, Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman said Tuesday that he saw damage "more massive and more extensive than any of us imagined," noting that in some areas ice was 3 inches thick on trees. Heineman had declared a state of emergency in advance of the storm.

At least 6,300 homes and businesses in western Kansas were without power, along with an estimated 15,000 in Nebraska and more than 6,000 in Colorado and Oklahoma. Some utility officials warned it could take weeks to restore electricity.

Every motel in the western Nebraska town of Kearney was full of people who had no electricity.

Patrick Keough, 49, was one of 10 people in his family sharing three rooms at the Kearney Ramada Inn. At his home east of Kearney, there was no power at his house or shop, where he makes fiberglass animals for advertising.

"Hardly anybody got any snow," Keough said Tuesday. "It's all just ice. Even the gravel roads are a sheet of ice, because the gravel is below the level of the ice. I've never seen that in my life."

Power poles are snapped off for miles around, he said, and he was told not to expect any power for at least three weeks.

Ten traffic deaths were blamed on the latest storm in Colorado, Texas and Minnesota. A tornado spun off by the same weather system killed one person in Texas, and a Kansas man died in a rural home where a generator was apparently being used because the power was out.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Fake

 

[Chunkee]

my dad got it from someone and just passed it to me....


dont get so riled up...just found it interesting...

jC

 

[Queasy]

The blizzard just needs some false stories of babies getting raped, people being murdered, and gangstas sniping at rescue helicoptors. That'll get everyone's attention.

 

[CarlKillerMiller]

It looks like the usual chain mail garbage/thinly veiled racism.

 

[TUKIN18S]

Snow hates blacks

 

[bignateyk]

While I dont think the comparison is fair, I still think that it makes a somewhat valid point regarding the expectations of the government.

 

[freebee]

Colorado has far fewer black people than Louisiana. There I said it.

 

[moshquerade]

not even remotely comparable.

 

[TUKIN18S]

double post FTL