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NOLA VS MONTANA and NORTH DAKOTA
12/14/2005 | unknown

Posted on 12/14/2005 10:43:09 AM PST by Leatherneck_MT

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 text is from county emergency manager out in the western part of North Dakota state after the storm.

Amusing...

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 10's 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. No looting No killing Jessie did not show up 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 an extra layer 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


TOPICS: Weather
KEYWORDS: flood; louisiana; montana; neworleans; nola; northdakota
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To: lugsoul

Yeah yeah I'm mean spirited.

Happy?


61 posted on 12/14/2005 11:24:07 AM PST by Leatherneck_MT
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To: BlueStateDepression

I didn't say it.

Blizzard victims are victims of blizzards. Flood victims are victims of floods. I have never said contrary.

What I am sayign is that the Blizzard mentioned in the attempt at humor in this thread was not as serious as the NOLA flood. The comparison is silly.


62 posted on 12/14/2005 11:26:33 AM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: ozzymandus

lol Yep I do, and I've lived in those states (was Born in Savannah GA, lived throughout the South most of my life). So they can't tell me what I don't already know.

I just know that people who want to depend on guvmint to do for them will always be victims. Those who choose to be self reliant and free will NEVER ask Guvmint to do for them.

My Parents and grandparents went through countless hurricanes and a few floods. I don't remember ever hearing them say "The guvmint came and gave us all trailers, 200 dollars to spend and a bus ride to Raleigh" EVER.

Victims will always be victims.

Some are that way intentionally, others are truly victims because they are too weak to care for themselves. Those are the only ones who should be helped.


63 posted on 12/14/2005 11:27:48 AM PST by Leatherneck_MT
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To: Comstock1

Don't try to tell me what hurricanes are or do. I've been through far more of them and Typhoons that you can imagine.

The difference in the 2 areas is the victim mentality. If it doesn't apply to you then why do you defend it?


64 posted on 12/14/2005 11:29:12 AM PST by Leatherneck_MT
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To: Leatherneck_MT
Oh, yes. I am happy.

And I don't have to announce to the world how superior I am to sick elderly people in a flooded nursing home to be that way.

65 posted on 12/14/2005 11:31:08 AM PST by lugsoul ("Try not to be sad." - Laura Bush)
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To: Petronski

when you say it is not as serious, you make the distinction that one is a victim and one is not. At the very least you make the distinction that one is MORE of a victim than the other.

THE ONLY THING that makes that statement true is the actions of each person in each situation because BOTH will and DO cause people to loce their lives and or their posessions, Tornadoes do that very same thing.

You dismiss blizzards and claim the hurricane was so much worse. It wasn't the hurricane at all it was the flooding. Flooding is not a new topic in NOLA....surely you will agree with that.....yet you will say that blizzards aren't a new topic in areas prone to such events.

The only reason there were victims in NOLA is because people didn't listen to warnings they were given and in addition they expected others to care FOR them instead of taking actions to care for themselves. They aren't victims of a flood or a hurricane or even a blizzard, they are victims of their own choices.


66 posted on 12/14/2005 11:31:13 AM PST by BlueStateDepression
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To: Leatherneck_MT
They were thankful for the help they got, they rolled up their sleeves one and all and got to work rebuilding their towns and cities.

I was down in Biloxi, MS a month ago, and that was what I saw. Yes, people are living in FEMA trailers, but it's the churches that are helping them rebuild their houses. Look, I've been in blizzards.. bad blizzards. But there was nothing... NOTHING that could compare to what I saw down on the coast. And the stories I heard of people TRYING to leave but getting caught up in traffic and deciding it was better to stay home and hope for the best than to sit on the highway in a car while a Cat 4 hurricane tears you apart. The stories of people trying to escape the fast-rising flood by running up on-ramps, putting their kids in trees only to lose their wives to the flash flood. These are people who lost everything they WORKED their entire lives for. Everything in their houses had to be thrown out because the flood waters were toxic. Walls, floors, ceilings, had to be torn out due to the mold from flooding. Sure, they could do the work for themselves if they had the tools, if they weren't elderly, if everyone they knew and loved wasn't in the exact same situation with the same lack of resources.

My point is, you really don't know what you're talking about. You can't compare what you haven't seen or experienced in some way.
67 posted on 12/14/2005 11:32:41 AM PST by conservatrice
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To: lugsoul

Naw you just think you're superior to people here.

By the way, I never said I was superior to sick elderly people in nursinghomes did I?

Nope, you put that in.

My reference was to those boneheaded idiots between 20 and 30 who were fit, walking around and cussing the government and Pres Bush because their freaking asses didn't get taken out of NOLA.

If they were that healthy and had that much warning in advance, they by god could have walked.

but instead, like all people like that, they chose to become victims.

Try reading next time instead of jumping to confusion.


68 posted on 12/14/2005 11:34:33 AM PST by Leatherneck_MT
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To: Leatherneck_MT
"hehe Gunny you must be having a heat wave"

We actually started seeing the sun yesterday for the first time in weeks.
69 posted on 12/14/2005 11:34:52 AM PST by GunnyHartman (Allah is allah outta virgins.)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
Yep. For instance, I've always got on hand 2 gallons of milk and several loaves of bread in the freezer this time of year.

That's great if your power doesn't go out and your house isn't flooded with toxic water.

FTR, I'm not from a hurricane state. I'm from NY. But I went down to Biloxi to help people fix their homes. Nobody was whining.
70 posted on 12/14/2005 11:36:22 AM PST by conservatrice
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To: conservatrice

Where in my post did you see me say anything about Ole Miss?

This is about New Orleans.

The folks in Miss did it right. They got hammered BAD, but they didn't bitch or complain.

Now, before you start claiming that people don't know what they are talking about, maybe you should take a look at the post and READ it before opening your mouth.

I have BEEN through these storms before. Bad ones, I've had to live weeks without electricity and water other than what we had stowed up. I've been part of rescue efforts up and down the south east coast.

I Know alot more about what I am talking about than you think.

If you don't like the post, there's a simple solution to it.

Move on


71 posted on 12/14/2005 11:38:25 AM PST by Leatherneck_MT
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To: BlueStateDepression
You dismiss blizzards...

Nope. I said the comparison was silly.

72 posted on 12/14/2005 11:39:15 AM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: Leatherneck_MT

Yeah, go on imagining that something that has never occurred in the history of civilisation - the complete evacuation of a major city - would've been no big deal if the people there were the same caliber as you.


73 posted on 12/14/2005 11:40:00 AM PST by lugsoul ("Try not to be sad." - Laura Bush)
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To: BlueStateDepression
when you say it is not as serious, you make the distinction that one is a victim and one is not.

No, I don't. What I say is that one is a victim of less than the other.

74 posted on 12/14/2005 11:41:03 AM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: conservatrice
FTR, I'm not from a hurricane state. I'm from NY. But I went down to Biloxi to help people fix their homes. Nobody was whining.

Right. That's the gist of this thread.

75 posted on 12/14/2005 11:41:57 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("Tucker Carlson could reveal himself as a castrated, lesbian, rodeo clown ...wouldn't surprise me")
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To: Leatherneck_MT

great post.

Growing up in northern North Dakota there were plenty of blizzards.

Not once did I think the Feds would ever show up...where's my retroactive $2,000 w/interest?


76 posted on 12/14/2005 11:43:34 AM PST by wallcrawlr (Pray for the troops [all the troops here and abroad]: Success....and nothing less!!)
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To: lugsoul

I can see that your ignorance will continue, so I'll just end this useless conversation.


77 posted on 12/14/2005 11:45:25 AM PST by Leatherneck_MT
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To: BlueStateDepression

1) The hurricane didn't actually hit NOLA. It veered east--just imagine the damage if it veered west or hit straight on.

2) So it was the aftermath? So what? The hurricane caused it. This is akin to those idiots who like to say "It wasn't the bullet that killed him, it was his heart stopping." Just a useless attempt at humor.

3) There weren't that many trees left. The point is that a hurricane is essentially a large tornado. By the way, I live just below the start of Tornado Alley. I've seen plenty of tornado damage. You haven't been through the aftermath of Rita. There were over 100 tornadoes caused by Rita. Most damage in hurricanes is caused by wind not water. These two just happened to have massive storm surges that devastated the LA coast.

4) Nearly a dozen refineries were off line for nearly a month between Mississippi to East Texas. A huge number of off shore drilling rigs still haven't started back up. Nobody said a quarter of the nation's oil supply was shut down. It was majorly at risk and was diminished more than an "iota".
Most of my family in Louisiana works in chemical plants or refineries or in one case the National Petroleum Reserve in Hackberry, LA. Explain to me why they had time to go on vacations or long hunting trips while they were supposed to be working. It surely wasn't becasue they took time off.

5) For the first few weeks after Katrina the produce around here was really cheap because the lower Mississippi had taken so much damage that large freight ships couldn't pass securely enough into the gulf for the comfort of bond and insurance companies. All those food exports got dispered around Texas and a few other states. You think that didn'f affect the national economy? By the way:

6) just because you can formulate an argument with flimsy and/or imagined facts doesn't mean that other people will let you dish it out without replying. Your fatalism and desire to denigrate your fellow citizens is astounding. The fact that it got really cold in the WY and ND is regrettable but by all means a "normal event". FEMA showed up because what happened in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas was a national emergency.


78 posted on 12/14/2005 11:48:24 AM PST by Comstock1 (I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all outta bubble gum!)
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To: lugsoul

Ever hear of the flood in Grand Forks where the city had to be evacuated?

Blizzards and Floods...we get them both.


79 posted on 12/14/2005 11:50:08 AM PST by wallcrawlr (Pray for the troops [all the troops here and abroad]: Success....and nothing less!!)
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To: lugsoul; Leatherneck_MT

BTW, the people do matter.


80 posted on 12/14/2005 11:51:05 AM PST by wallcrawlr (Pray for the troops [all the troops here and abroad]: Success....and nothing less!!)
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