Something to think about...

Up here, in the "Mile-High City", we just recovered from an 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 which created drifts taller than houses, 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.

And...

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 send hordes of correspondents.

Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.

No one asked for a FEMA trailer house.

No one looted.

Nobody -- I mean nobody -- demanded that the Federal Government "do something".

And nobody expected them to, either! Instead, we "did something".

No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera (thank God!)

No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found.

Nope, we just melted the snow to make water.

Sent out caravans of SUVs to pluck people out of snow-engulfed cars.

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.

Farmers who had extra hay donated it to other farmers whose hay was buried in snow.

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 around here it is "Work or Die".

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.

Something else we learned a long time ago: the world does not owe us a living.

Good read Andy. If only everyone operated like this in the face of adversity, things would run a lot more smoothly. Its always good when people can band together and help each other out, instaed of just lying down, crying waiting for someone else to take care of them..

Yeah, it'd be better if it were encouraged to be more self sufficient like our grandparents were, instead of people acting like children and expecting someone else to take care of all their needs. When you have to depend on someone else for your needs, that dependance can be used to control you.

We had the same blizzard hit as far north as here in saskatchawan.
I spent the last 2 days digging my loonng driveway out from 5 foot high drifts in
-50 weather. To be fair though the people in New Orleans had their homes destroyed which is alot harder than being stuck inside or in your car. We have had a few deaths from the weather when people leave their cars. Personaly I loved what happened in New Orleans because it is an exact picture of what will happen in any major city after any big disaster.

Yeah, but they should have known that below sealevel near the ocean is a bad place for a house.

"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash." Matthew 7:24-27

oh boy the C O L D..
lived in northern states for ~10 years.. never did get used to the Cold! my cousins all loved it.. born & bred.. they go skiing, skating, hockey..
But myself.. oh i'll take a double shot 'o sunshine please! w/ a warm chaser <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Cheers!

Once again, I HATE SNOW!!!