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Originally posted by IROC
Jeff - you may realize this, but that "bulletin" you posted is a hoax. Or at least was not written by "county emergency manager out in the central part of Colorado". It's been circulating the internet for years after each major snowstorm/flood/etc....they just change the location in the title...
Mike
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I actually had no idea it was a hoax, Mike. It does seem like something that some one from that area would say. Mary Mapes style "fake, but accurate reporting" maybe.
I find the responses from those that have lived through both hurricanes and blizzards rather telling. I have been through neither (one of the "advantages" of living in the consistantly wet and mild Pacific Northwest). I can well imagine, after the descriptions given here, how different the post-storm survival problems are in a sub-freezing vs. tropical environment. I had honestly never considered the differences; yes, a bilzard does sound much more survivable.
At the end of the day, however, we do see a stark contrast between Houston and N.O. under the same circumstances. The reason for the difference, as became apparent in the aftermath, were the people living in the two locales. One population used to making do for themselves, another used to doing nothing. It seems to me that the blizzrad prone areas are more generally populated by the former. On the strength of that, while this particular story may very well be a hoax, I would venture to guess it has been repeated time and again for real. We just never hear about it.