WEATHER NEWS (it’s late because I didn’t know it happened)

This happened, I believe, this year. I wish I could have included the pictures.

Up here in the Northern part of Michigan we just recovered from a 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.

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’Rielly, no Oprah, no Chris Mathews, and no Geraldo Rivera. No Shaun Penn, No Barbara 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 did not 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 and 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.

I hope this gets passed on. Maybe SOME people will get the message.
The world does not owe you a living.

Do you ever wonder how our ancestors ever survived with out all the government help we have today?