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Kathy Du Bois <[log in to unmask]>
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The Electronic Church <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 9 Jan 2007 07:32:48 -0500
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Phil,
I have to laugh because a friend sent me this identical email last 
week only the place name was Marquette Michigan instead of Denver 
Colorado and the snow storm was last year instead of last 
week.  Someone is having fun playing fast and loose with the facts.  GRIN!
Kathy



At 12:22 AM 1/9/2007, you wrote:
>Otherwise know as Denver.
>
>Weather Bulletin - Denver
>
>Up here, in the "Mile-Hi City", we just recovered from a Historic event---
>may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a
>historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that broke
>trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in
>lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut
>power to 10's of thousands.
>
>FYI:
>
>George Bush did not come.
>
>FEMA did nothing.
>
>No one howled for the government.
>
>No one blamed the government.
>
>No one even uttered an expletive on TV.
>
>Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.
>
>Our Mayor  did not blame Bush or anyone else.
>
>Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else, either.
>
>CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC did not visit - or report on this category 5
>snowstorm.  Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.
>
>No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House.
>
>No one looted.
>
>Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something.
>
>Nobody expected the government to do anything, either.
>
>No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo
>Rivera.
>
>No Sean Penn, No Barbara Striesand, no Hollywood-types to be found.
>
>Nope, we just melted the snow for water.
>
>Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars.
>
>The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a
>penny.
>
>Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments delivered it
>to the snowbound families.
>
>Families took in the stranded people - total strangers.
>
>We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns.
>
>We put on extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die".
>
>We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a
>mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for
>'sittin at home' checks.
>
>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.
>
>"In my many travels, I have noticed that once one  gets north of about 48
>degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems evaporate."
>
>I hope this gets passed on.
>
>Maybe SOME people will get the message.  The world does Not owe you a living
>
>
>P.S.  Another one foot of snow is predicted for next week.  No fooling.
>
>
>
>Phil, but I didn't write this.

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