With all the storm news,, I think the people that will be 60 degrees again in a couple of days better just keep quite:::::::::::::::::
| Pioneer Spirit Lives In Northern Michigan by Dr. Eowyn This is from a county emergency manager out in the western part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan after a recent severe snow storm: Up here in the Northern part of Michigan we just recovered from a weather event of Biblical proportions – 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 tens of thousands. FYI: Obama 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 Mayors did not blame Obama or anyone else. Our Governor did not blame Obama or anyone else either. CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, or NBC did not visit – or even 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’Reilly, no Oprah, no Chris Matthews and no Geraldo Rivera. No Sean Penn, no Barbra Striesand, no Brad Pitts, no Hollywood types to be found. Nope, we just melted the snow for water. Sent out caravans of SUVs 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 layer 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 is not usual, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves. 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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