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That's the message the MSM is conveying, as they once again obfuscate or omit certain things (and push several agendas at the same time).
Update: More snow expected for ice-bound Kentucky
Go outside without a jacket then.
"Troops called up in ice storm's wake
MAYFIELD - Governor Steve Beshear called up his entire Army National Guard yesterday, tripling his troops with his state still reeling from a deadly ice storm that knocked out power from the Midwest to the East Coast. More than half a million homes and businesses, most of them in Kentucky, remained without electricity from the Ozarks through Appalachia (AP)."
Why does the Globe give me that minimizing brief on a Sunday morning when my local gives me a full-length piece?
"Kentucky Deploys Guard For Storm Cleanup
Gov. Steve Beshear deployed every last one of his Army National Guardsmen on Saturday, with his state still reeling after a deadly ice storm encrusted it this week.
More than half a million homes and businesses, most of them in Kentucky, remained without electricity from the Ozarks through Appalachia, though temperatures creeping into the 40s helped a swarm of utility workers make headway. Finding fuel — heating oil along with gas for cars and generators — was another struggle for those trying to tough it out at home, with hospitals and other essential services getting priority over members of the public.
They are TESTING OUT the UPCOMING RATIONING and how you are going to take it, America. Please wake up.
The addition of 3,000 soldiers and airmen makes 4,600 Guardsmen pressed into service. It's the largest call-up in Kentucky history, which Beshear called an appropriate response to a storm that cut power to more than 700,000 homes and businesses, the state's largest outage on record. Many people in rural areas cannot get out of their driveways due to debris and have no phone service, the governor said....
Thousands of people were staying in motels and shelters, asked to leave their homes by authorities who said emergency teams in some areas were too strapped to reach everyone in need of food, water and warmth. The outages disabled water systems, and authorities warned it could be days or weeks before power was restored in the most remote spots.
That uncertainty had many appealing for help and officials urging those in dark homes to leave, if they could — many were stuck in place by blocked roads and other obstacles....
The storm that began in the Midwest had been blamed or suspected in at least 42 deaths, including at least 11 in Kentucky, nine in Arkansas, six each in Texas and Missouri, three in Virginia, two each in Oklahoma, Indiana and West Virginia and one in Ohio. Most were blamed on hypothermia, traffic accidents and carbon monoxide poisoning....
From Missouri to Ohio, thousands were waiting in shelters for the power to return....
--more--"And I could find the REST of the PRINTED ARTICLE NOWHERE on the WEB!!!
Fuel shortages, a problem since the storm, spilled into the weekend, with radio stations that normally broadcast music telling people where they could get gas and oil businesses ranking customers according to how urgently they needed it.
"We're trying to prioritize to get fuel to hospitals, nursing homes, ambulance services," said David Dunlap, regional sales manager for MFA Oil Co., which has 10 locations in southeast Missouri.
With power back on in Tennessee's northeast corner, Kentucky residents headed across the state line to get fuel. Obion Co. Propane Gas general manager Ken Walker said he gets five customers on the average day at his shop in Union, Tenn.
He saw 200 in a single day Thursday.
"They are bringing in their propane cylinders, camper bottles and whatever else they can to do what it takes to stay warm, Walker said...."
Now, WHY would the AMERIKAN MSM want to CENSOR and OMIT this IMPORTANT STORY?
The RATIONING and the WEATHER?
The Globe tries to get it back on Monday, but too little, too late (a BRIEF!):
"Thaw comes slowly to storm-ravaged Kentucky as authorities step up relief efforts
CANEYVILLE, Ky. - Thousands of National Guard troops swinging chainsaws cut their way into remote communities yesterday to reach residents stranded by a deadly ice storm, freeing some to get out of their driveways for the first time in nearly a week.
The soldiers went door-to-door, handing out chili and beef stew rations to people cooped up in their powerless homes. Authorities stepped up the relief effort for what Governor Steve Beshear called the biggest natural disaster ever to hit the state....
Of course, that is what the Guard SHOULD BE DOING -- not being used as cannon fodder for foreign occupations or shock troops to enforce AmeriKan tyranny.
And if it the state's WORST DISASTER EVER, why has the Globe minimized it so? Don't believe me? Go check out all the stories they print that I don't post and get back to me.
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The 4,600 soldiers Beshear ordered on duty, including the state's entire Army National Guard, swept through the state distributing food and water, removing fallen trees, providing security, and checking houses in hard-to-reach areas.
Across Kentucky, churches canceled services or cut schedules to just one service for the day. At New Horizon Baptist Church in Glendale, volunteers from New Haven Baptist Church in Albany, La., passed out free kerosene, batteries, bottled water, and other goods to local residents, returning a favor from 2005.
"Our church sent a truckload down when Katrina hit," said Dan Brian, New Horizon's associate pastor, "and they heard we had trouble and here they came."
Yeah, ONCE AGAIN it is the RELIGIOUS who are PROVIDING for the people in NEED -- while GOVERNMENTS WASTE $$$ or LOOT US!!
Sorry, 'murka, but that's the facts!!!!
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EDDYVILLE, Ky. - In the first real test of the Obama administration's ability to respond to a disaster, Kentucky officials are giving the federal government good marks for its response to a deadly ice storm.
Yet more than 300,000 residents remained without power yesterday, and some areas had yet to see aid workers nearly a week after the storm, a fact not lost on some local authorities.
"We haven't seen FEMA; they haven't been here," said Jaime Green, a spokeswoman for the emergency operations center in Lyon County, about 95 miles northwest of Nashville.
Federal authorities insisted they responded as soon as the state asked for help, and they promised to keep providing whatever aid was necessary.
FEMA has been under the microscope since the Bush administration's botched response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which Barack Obama and other Democrats made a favorite topic on the presidential campaign trail.
FEMA was reorganized and strengthened after that, and it has avoided the onslaught of negative feedback Katrina generated.
And, of course, who remembers Ike?
Governor Steve Beshear, a Democrat, raised Kentucky's death toll to 24 yesterday, meaning the storm has been blamed in at least 55 deaths nationwide. While it also knocked out power to more than a million customers from the Southern Plains to the East Coast, it is still considered a medium-size disaster, the kind FEMA has traditionally been successful handling.
The Kentucky disaster will be closely watched, said Richard Sylves, professor of political science at the University of Delaware, particularly because Obama has not yet named the top FEMA officials, many of whom must go through Senate confirmation.
Beshear asked Obama for a disaster declaration to free up federal assistance Thursday, two days after the storm hit, and Obama issued it hours later. Trucks loaded with supplies began arriving at a staging area at Fort Campbell, Ky., on Friday morning, said Mary Hudak, a spokeswoman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
On Saturday, Beshear ordered all of the state's Army National Guardsmen into action to distribute supplies, many of which came from FEMA. Beshear has consistently praised Obama, a fellow Democrat, for the attention he has devoted to what Beshear calls the biggest natural disaster to hit his state.
Trina Sheets, executive director of the National Emergency Management Association, based in Lexington, Ky., said that from what she's heard, FEMA's response has been very good so far.
"FEMA and the Kentucky National Guard are doing everything they can to get things back up and running," said Senator Jim Bunning, a Republican.What, you off your medication again, Jim?
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