Iceman
2006-12-19, 10:46
On Thursday December 14th 2006 a powerful windstorm swept thru the Pacific Northwest, knocking out power to over 1.5 million folks, leaving many without electricity for almost a week now. Predictions are that many will not have power returned until past xmas, maybe the new year. (Boo hoo F-ing hoo!) This happens all over the planet, every week, it has happened to you, your aunt, your buddy from Tuscaloosa.
Someone please tell me that you also live with millions of idiots, unable to care for themselves, unwilling to prepare for disaster, people who blame the government for no power, blame the contractors for leaving weak trees up in the new neighborhoods(trees which fall down on homes when winds exceed fifty miles per hour), blame the cell phone companies for not placing cell towers on each mountain ridge so that idiots who get lost in the wilderness (idiots who drive their families up frozen mountain roads, with poor maps, no survival equipment, who have filed no plan with anybody, against the advice of officials, drive their subaru up snow covered roads, with no chains, until snow is pushing up onto the windshield, then try to turn around, then get stuck, then stay in their car for nine days, then leave their car, then instead of walking back down the six mile road to the rescuers takes a "shortcut", then walks and stumbles around in a hypothermic state until they are tossing all of their clothes off in a cold induced stumble to their death) can call for help. Idiots who blame the forest service for not locking the gates so that other idiots will not drive to their death. Idiots who attempt summiting local mountains days before a major windstorm is predicted, without telling anyone, or contingency plan.
Out here we call idiots, HEROES! Yea for the Heroes! We are all heroes! Yea!
Seattle residents are placing generators in their living rooms, sleeping the whole family around the charcoal grill placed in the bedroom, leaving twelve candles on the straw mat next to the paper mache' storage area, and trying to heat their home with an extension cord leading from the inverter in their car parked in their garage at night. Dead people. (Not their fault)
Hello?! Is anyone in there? McFly!? Carbon Monoxide poisoning, fire, death. Hello?!
Believe it. Out here in "Sanfrancisco North" (Seattle) we blame everyone but ourselves for anything that goes wrong. If we drive into the woods and get lost, damn those GPS makers! Subaru gets stuck in snow, damn those cell phone companies for not having a cell tower every 100 yards! Power goes out for a week, damn those contractors and power companies! Always someone elses fault, not mine.
I am living with millions of idiots.
Here is an excerpt/quote from a local doctor: "We're dealing with a carbon-monoxide epidemic in Western Washington," said Dr. Neil B. Hampson at Virginia Mason's Center for Hyperbaric Medicine. "This has the potential to be the worst case of carbon monoxide poisoning in the country."
Now, in "Sanfrancisco North", even stupidity is defined by local "professionals" in medical terms.
Stupid = not your fault. (someone else's fault you are stupid) I am sure the good doctor can prescribe some medicine to fix my stupidity. Thank goodness for doctors, they will save me. Yea!
We do have an epidemic in Seattle! It is stupidity! The good doctors quote means; there are more stupid people per capita in Seattle, than in other parts of the country. Seattle = Stupid.
(Also of interest, we are now placing suicide phones at the end of each of our popular bridges for ending it all in one jump. They did not like my idea of placing a target at the bottom. You may as well be successful at one point in your life, try to hit the target at least. I also offered a suggestion where we place a coffin below the bridge, a "guest sign in board" and wind sock. If you make it inside the target zone without too much mess, we will bury you for free! They did not like my ideas.)
Welcome to my world.
Someone please tell me that you also live with millions of idiots, unable to care for themselves, unwilling to prepare for disaster, people who blame the government for no power, blame the contractors for leaving weak trees up in the new neighborhoods(trees which fall down on homes when winds exceed fifty miles per hour), blame the cell phone companies for not placing cell towers on each mountain ridge so that idiots who get lost in the wilderness (idiots who drive their families up frozen mountain roads, with poor maps, no survival equipment, who have filed no plan with anybody, against the advice of officials, drive their subaru up snow covered roads, with no chains, until snow is pushing up onto the windshield, then try to turn around, then get stuck, then stay in their car for nine days, then leave their car, then instead of walking back down the six mile road to the rescuers takes a "shortcut", then walks and stumbles around in a hypothermic state until they are tossing all of their clothes off in a cold induced stumble to their death) can call for help. Idiots who blame the forest service for not locking the gates so that other idiots will not drive to their death. Idiots who attempt summiting local mountains days before a major windstorm is predicted, without telling anyone, or contingency plan.
Out here we call idiots, HEROES! Yea for the Heroes! We are all heroes! Yea!
Seattle residents are placing generators in their living rooms, sleeping the whole family around the charcoal grill placed in the bedroom, leaving twelve candles on the straw mat next to the paper mache' storage area, and trying to heat their home with an extension cord leading from the inverter in their car parked in their garage at night. Dead people. (Not their fault)
Hello?! Is anyone in there? McFly!? Carbon Monoxide poisoning, fire, death. Hello?!
Believe it. Out here in "Sanfrancisco North" (Seattle) we blame everyone but ourselves for anything that goes wrong. If we drive into the woods and get lost, damn those GPS makers! Subaru gets stuck in snow, damn those cell phone companies for not having a cell tower every 100 yards! Power goes out for a week, damn those contractors and power companies! Always someone elses fault, not mine.
I am living with millions of idiots.
Here is an excerpt/quote from a local doctor: "We're dealing with a carbon-monoxide epidemic in Western Washington," said Dr. Neil B. Hampson at Virginia Mason's Center for Hyperbaric Medicine. "This has the potential to be the worst case of carbon monoxide poisoning in the country."
Now, in "Sanfrancisco North", even stupidity is defined by local "professionals" in medical terms.
Stupid = not your fault. (someone else's fault you are stupid) I am sure the good doctor can prescribe some medicine to fix my stupidity. Thank goodness for doctors, they will save me. Yea!
We do have an epidemic in Seattle! It is stupidity! The good doctors quote means; there are more stupid people per capita in Seattle, than in other parts of the country. Seattle = Stupid.
(Also of interest, we are now placing suicide phones at the end of each of our popular bridges for ending it all in one jump. They did not like my idea of placing a target at the bottom. You may as well be successful at one point in your life, try to hit the target at least. I also offered a suggestion where we place a coffin below the bridge, a "guest sign in board" and wind sock. If you make it inside the target zone without too much mess, we will bury you for free! They did not like my ideas.)
Welcome to my world.