Posted on 01/31/2009 12:40:37 PM PST by cp124
MURRAY, Ky. (AP) - Utility crews renewed work in subfreezing temperatures Saturday in their effort to put the power back on for nearly a million customers left in the dark by an ice storm that crippled parts of several states this week.
Thousands of people in ice-caked Kentucky awoke in motels and shelters, asked to leave their homes by authorities who said emergency teams in some areas were too strapped to reach everyone in need of food, water and warmth.
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Where is the Obamamessiah? Cannot it be that he is not all-powerful?
Katrina II. My first thought also! Where’s OBAMA? He’s sitting in the Oval Office at 85 degrees planting orchids.
Call ALGORE!!!
Where should they line up for their debit cards to be distributed?
One answer, three words: Obama...Red state!
In the words of Kanye West, “Obama....doesn’t care....about white people.”
Dear Leader, please send heat.
Yep, writing a 20M dollar check to Gaza for “disaster” relief.
We got our power back yesterday after 59 hours. The house was down to 46 degrees. Thank God for the repair crews from North and South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi and Ohio that worked in 15 degree temperatures to get my power back.
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