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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 153570" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Weather Bulletin -Colorado</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Priceless. Think about this for a moment.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Denver News</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">This text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part of</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Jefferson County after a snowstorm.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">WEATHER BULLETIN</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Up here, in the Northern Plains, we just recovered from a Historic event---</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">power to 10's of thousands.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">FYI:</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">George Bush did not come.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">FEMA did nothing.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">No one howled for the government.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">No one blamed the government.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">No one even uttered an expletive on TV.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Our Mayor did not blame Bush or anyone else.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else, either.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC did not visit - or report on this category 5</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">snowstorm.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">No one looted.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Nobody expected the government to do anything, either.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Rivera.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Nope, we just melted the snow for water.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">penny.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments delivered </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">it to the snowbound families.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Families took in the stranded people - total strangers.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">We put on extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die".</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">for 'sittin at home' checks.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">early, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">"In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 40</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems evaporate."</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">It does seem that way, at least to me.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">I hope this gets passed on.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Maybe SOME people will get the message. The world does Not owe you a </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: blue"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">living.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"></span></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 153570, member: 1246"] [FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=2][COLOR=blue][COLOR=blue][FONT='Arial Black']Weather Bulletin -Colorado Priceless. Think about this for a moment. Denver News This text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part of Jefferson County after a snowstorm. 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. 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 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.[/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=4][COLOR=blue][COLOR=blue][FONT='Arial Black'][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black][COLOR=black] [/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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