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More than a million wait in icy darkness across US
AP via Excite ^ | Jan 28 | PATRICK WALTERS

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.excite.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: blackouts; disaster; energy; fema; globalcooling; globalwarming; ice; january2009icestorm; obama; snowstorm; winter
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To: Revolting cat!

Why did you post the cover of a “Spinal Tap” LP?


61 posted on 01/28/2009 7:43:22 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: cripplecreek

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.


62 posted on 01/28/2009 7:46:31 PM PST by gigster
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To: ConservaTexan
"Where’s my crate of Heineken??????"


63 posted on 01/28/2009 7:46:41 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: PAR35
Half of the USA has become a William Jefferson outdoor cash storage facility..


64 posted on 01/28/2009 7:50:27 PM PST by Starfleet Command
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To: PAR35
Well over a million people shivered in ice-bound homes across the country Wednesday, waiting for warmer weather

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.

65 posted on 01/28/2009 7:52:17 PM PST by TheBattman (Pray for our country....)
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To: keepitreal

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.


66 posted on 01/28/2009 7:53:58 PM PST by TheBattman (Pray for our country....)
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To: PAR35

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.


67 posted on 01/28/2009 7:57:07 PM PST by kimmie7 (***even deeper sigh***)
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To: CindyDawg

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


68 posted on 01/28/2009 7:57:18 PM PST by mouser
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To: ConservaTexan; All
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69 posted on 01/28/2009 8:00:04 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: ConservaTexan; mylife
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70 posted on 01/28/2009 8:02:42 PM PST by Canedawg (Lincoln freed the slaves, BO will free the terrorists. "Unity of purpose" my a- -, Mr.POS)
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To: Canedawg

L0L!!!


71 posted on 01/28/2009 8:06:39 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: keepitreal

Heckuva job, Bammie!


72 posted on 01/28/2009 8:10:47 PM PST by Palladin (Obama's gift to the world: contraceptives and abortions.)
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To: CindyDawg
Don’t forget the 2000 dollar FEMA cards. You might have to ask.

Can I get in line five times and get five cards jus' like after Katrena?

73 posted on 01/28/2009 8:11:32 PM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: PAR35

I just semi-plagiarized you elsewhere. not Biden-style... more of a paraphrase. hope that’s OK. :l


74 posted on 01/28/2009 8:11:54 PM PST by Libertarian4Bush (let's all afford "mr obama" the same respect the left afforded president bush)
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To: kimmie7

May God watch over them and keep them well.

At their ages, they probably have a lot more survival skills than the babyboomers.


75 posted on 01/28/2009 8:14:07 PM PST by Palladin (Obama's gift to the world: contraceptives and abortions.)
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To: PAR35

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?


76 posted on 01/28/2009 8:15:33 PM PST by Scotswife (GO ISRAEL!!!)
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To: Last Dakotan

It depends on how big a plasma tv you want.


77 posted on 01/28/2009 8:16:57 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: Scotswife
Is it because they’re all a bunch of typical white folks?

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?

78 posted on 01/28/2009 8:17:57 PM PST by thecodont
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To: kimmie7

Prayer.


79 posted on 01/28/2009 8:18:42 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: PAR35

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.


80 posted on 01/28/2009 8:24:43 PM PST by I got the rope
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