North Dakota

This text is from a county emergency manager in Minot, North Dakota

Minot Daily News
WEATHER BULLETIN

Up here in the Northern part of North Dakota we just recovered from a historic event – may I even say a "Weather Event of "Biblical Proportions" – with a historic blizzard of up to 25 feet of snow and winds to 50 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.


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 snow storm.


No one demanded $2,000 credit 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 Brad Pitts, 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 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 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 is not usual, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.


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