ha, got this in email...couldn't resist posting it here! ************************************************* Weather Bulletin - Denver > > Up here, in the "Mile-Hi City", 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 Sean Penn, No Barbra 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. > >
