Denver Blizzard vs. Katrina

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

As I've stated many times--people who blamed Bush for Katrina stuff were morons.  Definitley agree w/ this article.

WEATHER BULLETIN

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 Shaun 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.
Maybe SOME people will get the message. The world does Not owe you a living.

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That's pretty dumb to compare some random blizzard to Hurricane Katrina. Once where I was living got 40 inches. I think we had 2 days off from school. Whatever.

[bullmoose88]

That's pretty dumb to compare some random blizzard to Hurricane Katrina. Once where I was living got 40 inches. I think we had 2 days off from school. Whatever.

Where in hell did you live? Upstate NY?

[Gabu]

Maybe SOME people will get the message. The world does Not owe you a living.

The message I got was "there are no black people in Denver", but I suppose that one works too.

[Boris]

Me thinks Hurricane Katrina was a slightly larger natural disaster than the recent Denver Blizzard? Or have I missed something?

[bgwah]

How many homes were destroyed? How many people died?

This blizzard and Katrina are not comparable...

[Smash255]

Me thinks Hurricane Katrina was a slightly larger natural disaster than the recent Denver Blizzard? Or have I missed something?

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[Eraserhead]

Is this satire? Over 1,000 people died during or in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

[MODU]

That's pretty dumb to compare some random blizzard to Hurricane Katrina.

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Yup, that's right, Fernie and I agree on something for once.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Dying has nothing to do w/ it--it has to do w/ the fact that FEMA could be used there.  A LOT of damage has happened.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

That's pretty dumb to compare some random blizzard to Hurricane Katrina. Once where I was living got 40 inches. I think we had 2 days off from school. Whatever.

Where in hell did you live? Upstate NY?

Yeah. There would be a 2 foot blizzard on average every year or two, although those don't seem to be so common recently. I never knew that a blizzard qualified as a disaster.

[Jake]

Uh, snow's a bit easier to move and operate in than water.

[Eraserhead]

Dying has nothing to do w/ it--it has to do w/ the fact that FEMA could be used there.  A LOT of damage has happened.

Fair enough but a lot of damage is not comparable in any way to over 1,000 people ceasing to exist.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Dying has nothing to do w/ it--it has to do w/ the fact that FEMA could be used there.  A LOT of damage has happened.

Fair enough but a lot of damage is not comparable in any way to over 1,000 people ceasing to exist.

Those 1,000 people could get out, and the gov't (city and state) had busses to remove them w/ as well.

[memphis]

Dude, you're retarded if you think that this is in any way comparable to Katrina. Winter storms happen all the time. Even here in Memphis, we had a bad one back in 1994 which shut down the city for weeks. New Orleans was nearly wiped off the map by Katrina. This is like comparing the war in Iraq to World War II.

[MODU]

Dying has nothing to do w/ it--it has to do w/ the fact that FEMA could be used there.  A LOT of damage has happened.

That is a bit of an overstatement.  The local and state agencies are trained and prepared to handle this kind of weather events.  Heavy snow falls and avalances are nothing new in the mountains.  Having five states flattened by heavy winds and rain, and then flooded by tital surges and breaches in retaining walls are a completely different matter.

[Eraserhead]

Dying has nothing to do w/ it--it has to do w/ the fact that FEMA could be used there.  A LOT of damage has happened.

Fair enough but a lot of damage is not comparable in any way to over 1,000 people ceasing to exist.

Those 1,000 people could get out, and the gov't (city and state) had busses to remove them w/ as well.

No and no.