Posted on 01/31/2009 5:05:47 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Obama and FEMA Leave Americans to Die in Kentucky
I guess what with Kentucky being a red state the heartless Barack Obama and FEMA can't be bothered helping the suffering Americans trying to cope with a massive ice storm that has left them powerless.
In some parts of rural Kentucky, they're getting water the old-fashioned way — with pails from a creek. There's not room for one more sleeping bag on the shelter floor.
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“Shades of the Fuhrerprinzip! What the bloody H* is this about?”
It’s a hoax.
I’ve only been in Kentucky for two years, but I know that waiting for the Feds to come to the rescue is not the Kentucky way of doing things. Daniel Boone’s fort is about twenty miles down the road from here; I trust his spirit of individualism isn’t dead yet.
Our neighborhood came through the storm with minimal damage (lots of snow, broken trees, but the power stayed on), so we did our part by taking in my wife’s niece and her husband, until power was restored at their place.
His pocket? I’d bet his lawyer paid the bill.
agree....I'm about 30 min. from there, We've got an offer to close friends / relatives, for the same...lucky our Util. are UG (away from ice) close to the house. *knock-on-wood*...
I just got off from one of the hardest shifts I've ever worked at Lowe's. When I got there, I had to go to the back and help unload an emergency shipment truck from our distribution center that was loaded with generators, kerosene heaters, and other emergency supplies. Once the stuff was unloaded, we started hauling the pallets out onto the floor, but the customers were emptying them before we could go fifty feet.
In less than one hour, we sold 186 generators, 182 kerosene heaters, over 1,000 extension cords, 360 gas or kerosene cans, and assorted kerosene wicks, cord plugs, wire, etc... By the time the store closed nine hours later, we only had thirteen replacement extension cord ends left from that entire truck, and we could easily sell another two or three truckloads just like that one.
Born and raised in the hills of Pa., the snowfall in southern OH. is relatively mild. Like you said, a few flurries and noone remembers how to drive!
I’m down the road from you, in the Cumberland Mountains of east Tennessee. I used to live over on the TN/NC border, in Greene County TN.
Now I am on the TN/KY border, so I always have a chance at getting hit from these storms. Just three hours above me in Louisville KY friends are iced in. So I guess I get pinned in here in the valley, and the mountains around us always keep the worst of it away from us.
Bet you've got some good wood burning heaters and fireplaces.
I will never forget the giant wood burning heaters in our house growing up.
Dad knew how to keep them burning alnight.
What a life!!!
No bailouts, was poor but never broke.
I don’t want to see another tree limb for a while after today. I had a 50 ft pine that is now basically a pole, as well as a dozen or so other trees. :) Two showers later I still have the fresh scent of pine.
I have not seen anything of FEMA, but then, we don’t need them. We didn’t sit around wondering where any government entity was or what they were doing. I slept quite a few nights where it was in the 30’s inside but in the daylight we looked for heating sources for others.
We finally got power yesterday thanks to our southern neighbors in Georgia, North and South Carolina. I hope they know how much we appreciate them.
It won’t be months, It will be years before it gets better!
Whatever. I've been up north (Erie, PA) during January and easily driven in their snow, which did not achieve the solid ice consistency that ours typically does here. Then there is that matter of flat land versus elevation. I can have a dusting here at 1500 ft but drive 30 minutes further south (and to 3500 ft) and find six inches.
You know good and well that all it would take is one school bus sliding off one road and the lawsuits would pop up like toadstools in a pasture field after a rain.
We lumped it out inside the dark house for the first few nights, but when it got down into single digits Friday night, I took Mom and the kids to a hotel for the night. Nice and warm day today, so we’ll be back by the fireplace and camp stove tonight.
We’re just typical white people in Kentucky...
“The drive-by media is not gonna pick up this story nor play it up because it doesn’t fit their agenda ...”
Very true.
You have a point. Up here where I live there are lots of places where the sun never hits the road. Since I am on top of a ridge, it’s straight down to go anywhere.
The roads out here don’t get salted, so basically we are driving on ice anytime it snows and gets packed down.
I try to stay in and not deal with it.
“You know good and well that all it would take is one school bus sliding off one road and the lawsuits would pop up like toadstools in a pasture field after a rain.”
Exactly why our schools are closed. And we do not have the equipment to handle a lot of snow. Seems like we always have plenty of salt for icy roads, that is a big help.
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