{"id":1201,"date":"2010-01-06T14:38:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T19:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2010-01-06T14:38:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T19:38:40","slug":"weather-bulletin-message-from-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/weather-bulletin-message-from-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather Bulletin: Message from Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional\/\/EN\"><br \/>\n<html><br \/>\n<head><br \/>\n<title>MICHIGANERS ARE A LESSON IN HUMANITY AND REALITY<\/title><br \/>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"><br \/>\n<\/head><\/p>\n<p><body><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"> <strong><font size=\"4\">Emergency<br \/>\n  Weather Bulletin<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><br \/>\n  This text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part of the<br \/>\n  Upper Peninsula of Michigan after a severe snow storm &#8230;<br \/>\n  The Mining Journal,Marquette, MI<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"> <br \/>\n  <em><strong>WEATHER BULLETIN <\/strong><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><br \/>\n  Up here in the Northern part of Michigan we just recovered from a Historic event<br \/>\n  &#8212; may I even say a &quot;Weather Event&quot; of &quot;Biblical Proportions&quot;<br \/>\n  &#8212; with a historic blizzard of up to 44&quot; inches of snow and winds to 90<br \/>\n  MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds<br \/>\n  of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities<br \/>\n  and cut power to 10&#8217;s of thousands. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/michiganers\/images\/image001.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"> <\/p>\n<p>\n  FYI: Obama did not come. FEMA did nothing. No one howled for the government.<br \/>\n  No one blamed the government. No one even uttered an expletive on TV. Jesse<br \/>\n  Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit. Our Mayor&#8217;s did not blame Obama or anyone<br \/>\n  else. Our Governor did not blame Obama or anyone else either. CNN, ABC, CBS,<br \/>\n  FOX, or NBC did not visit &#8211; or even report on this category 5 snow storm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/michiganers\/images\/image002.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards. <br \/>\n  No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House. <br \/>\n  No one looted. <br \/>\n  Nobody &#8211; I mean Nobody demanded the government do something. <br \/>\n  Nobody expected the government to do anything either. <br \/>\n  No Larry King, No Bill O&#8217;Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera.<br \/>\n  No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, <br \/>\n  No Brad Pitts, No Hollywood types to be found. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/michiganers\/images\/image003.jpg\" width=\"541\" height=\"387\"> <\/p>\n<p>Nope, we just melted the snow for water.Sent out caravans of SUV&#8217;s to pluck<br \/>\n  people out of snow engulfed cars. The truck drivers pulled people out of snow<br \/>\n  banks and didn&#8217;t ask for a penny. Local restaurants made food, and the police<br \/>\n  and fire departments delivered it to the snow bound families.. Families took<br \/>\n  in the stranded people &#8211; total strangers. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/michiganers\/images\/image004.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"305\"><br \/>\n  We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns. <br \/>\n  We put on an extra layers of clothes because up here it is &quot;Work or Die&quot;.<br \/>\n  We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a mess<br \/>\n  created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for &#8216;sittin<br \/>\n  at home&#8217; checks. Even though a Category 5 blizzard of this scale is not usual,<br \/>\n  we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/michiganers\/images\/image005.jpg\" width=\"457\" height=\"343\"><\/p>\n<p>I hope this gets passed on. <br \/>\n  Maybe &#8230;.. <br \/>\n  SOME people will get the message &#8230;&#8230; <br \/>\n  <font size=\"6\">The world does NOT owe you a living.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><br \/>\n<\/body><br \/>\n<\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MICHIGANERS ARE A LESSON IN HUMANITY AND REALITY Emergency Weather Bulletin This text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan after a severe snow storm &#8230; The Mining Journal,Marquette, MI WEATHER BULLETIN Up here in the Northern part of Michigan we just recovered from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[456,4],"tags":[965,966,27,1131,967],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-revolution","category-nature","tag-fema","tag-lessons-in-humanity","tag-michigan","tag-truth","tag-weather-bulletin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}