The following was forwarded to me, but I haven’t been able to verify or attribute the source. It refers to this event, which occurred October 4-6.
For those of you who are not aware, North Dakota and southwestern Montana got hit with their first blizzard of the season a couple of weeks ago. This message is in from a county emergency manager out in the western part of North Dakota state after the storm:
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 24 inches of snow and winds to 50 mph that broke trees in half, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed all roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to tens of thousands.George Bush did not come…
FEMA staged nothing…
No one howled for the government…
No one even uttered an expletive on TV…
Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards…
No one asked for a FEMA trailer house…
No news anchors moved in.We just melted snow for water, sent out caravans to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars, fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Aladdin lamps and put on extra layers of clothes.
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.
Everybody is fine.
No obvious jokes about global warming, please.
I was just out in that area this weekend. Specifically Dickinson, ND where they got 18 inches.
All over the area trees have been stripped of their limbs because the snow sitting on them was too heavy.
Nobody was upset about it though. They are used to living on their own. Damn near every single one of them owns:
– A gun
– A 4-wheel drive vehicle
– A generator
You got that and some food and what’s a little snow? It’s nothing. Most of the people I talked to seemed surprised we had heard about the storm in MN.