Posted on 01/28/2009 6:50:08 PM PST by PAR35
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Well over a million people shivered in ice-bound homes across the country Wednesday, waiting for warmer weather and for utility crews to restring power lines brought down by a storm that killed 23 as it took a snowy, icy journey from the Southern Plains to the East Coast. But with temperatures plunging, utility officials warned that it could be mid-February before electricity is restored to some of the hardest-hit places.
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Why did you post the cover of a “Spinal Tap” LP?
Some people can’t understand how I can live in the north-western lower peninsula of Michigan.We don’t get the snow that you get down south.We don’t get debilitating ice storms.And we don’t get Earth-quakes,floods, forest fires,tornados,land slides,or hurricanes.
But, it can be colder than Sh!t up here.
Better stated: Well over a million people shivered in ice-bound homes across the country Wednesday, waiting for their share of some man-made global warming.
Where is FEMA? I thought with the Obamamessiah, troubles like this were a thing of the past. There should be FEMA teams, helped by thousands of our military helping restore power, keep folks warm, and clean up the mess...
Oh - wait - that is only when “certain” areas are affected... my bad.
My 76 year old mother and 92 year old step-father are in that storm. I can’t get to them. They have no power, don’t really know how to use the cell phone, and only spotty telephone service on an old rotary phone hardwired into their line.
She says they’re staying good and warm, but then - she would say that.
Prayers for them.
Mid Feb?
that is what 2-3 weeks not bad when you consider all they have to do
Two years ago it was my turn to go 9 days without power over ice but some here went just over 3 weeks
news people trying to make it sound worse than it is
L0L!!!
Heckuva job, Bammie!
Can I get in line five times and get five cards jus' like after Katrena?
I just semi-plagiarized you elsewhere. not Biden-style... more of a paraphrase. hope that’s OK. :l
May God watch over them and keep them well.
At their ages, they probably have a lot more survival skills than the babyboomers.
Why won’t Obama get there immediately and start passing out $2,000 debit cards?
Is it because they’re all a bunch of typical white folks?
It depends on how big a plasma tv you want.
Just curious. Have you recently witnessed any vocal and visible Obama supporters say disparaging things about white people? Even if the Obama supporter is himself/herself white?
Prayer.
Why aren’t we declaring this as a national emergency. Where’s the National Guard?
If they weren’t in Iraq they could be here at home freezing their ass off...I mean assisting in the effected areas.
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