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THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A MOMENT!North Dakota News. This text is from a county emergency manager out inthe western part of North Dakota state after the recent snow stormweather bulletin.Up here in the Northern Plains we just recovered from a Historicevent--- 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 MPHthat broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundredsof motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores ofcommunities 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's ! 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 5snow storm and 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 NoGeraldo Rivera. No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Streisand, No Hollywood typesto be found.And Nope, we just melted the snow for water, sent out caravans of SUV'sto pluck people out of snow engulfed cars. The truck drivers pulledpeople out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny. Local restaurantsmade food, and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snowbound families.Families took in the stranded people - total strangers. We Fired up woodstoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns. We put on anextra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die".We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out ofa mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that tradesvotes for 'sitting at home' checks.Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen thisearly, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves. "In mymany travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 48degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems evaporate."It does seem that way, at least to me.Maybe... SOME people will get the message. The world does NOT owe you aliving, but will always help whenever and however they can!