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More than a million wait in icy darkness across US
AP via Excite ^ | Jan 28 | PATRICK WALTERS

Posted on 01/28/2009 6:50:08 PM PST by PAR35

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Well over a million people shivered in ice-bound homes across the country Wednesday, waiting for warmer weather and for utility crews to restring power lines brought down by a storm that killed 23 as it took a snowy, icy journey from the Southern Plains to the East Coast. But with temperatures plunging, utility officials warned that it could be mid-February before electricity is restored to some of the hardest-hit places.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: blackouts; disaster; energy; fema; globalcooling; globalwarming; ice; january2009icestorm; obama; snowstorm; winter
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People dying, power out for weeks, freezing weather, icy roads, a disaster hitting directly at the heart of the country's biggest retailer.

Where's Fema? Where's Obama? Where's my flat screen TV?

1 posted on 01/28/2009 6:50:09 PM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35

Zero be hatin white folk!!!!


2 posted on 01/28/2009 6:51:22 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: PAR35

GLOBAL WARMING !!! (Hundredth!)


3 posted on 01/28/2009 6:52:10 PM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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Where’s my crate of Heineken??????


4 posted on 01/28/2009 6:52:29 PM PST by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: PAR35

Why doesnt Barama DO SOMETHING!??

Why wasnt he prepared?

Oh the huge manatee!


5 posted on 01/28/2009 6:53:46 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: PAR35; SkyDancer
How are ya’ll doing? We have friends in Ardmore Ok, we haven't talked to them but I have been wondering about that area.
6 posted on 01/28/2009 6:54:16 PM PST by Ditter
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To: PAR35

I think we need a telethon where someone will say: “Barack Obama does not care about white people.”


7 posted on 01/28/2009 6:54:39 PM PST by TheWasteLand
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To: PAR35

And Obama is having a cocktail party at the White House tonight. He has no sense of shame, drinking and laughing, while real Americans are suffering, children freezing, old people without the comfort of a warm cup of tea.


8 posted on 01/28/2009 6:55:59 PM PST by keepitreal (Obama brings change: an international crisis (terrorism) within 6 months)
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To: PAR35

And Obama basically called us weak and to send the kids to school, ice or no ice. I just about busted my rear on the ice a few times, not to mention having to get my car pushed once today. Sending kids to school on buses on ice covered roads would have been disasterous.


9 posted on 01/28/2009 6:56:02 PM PST by HollyB
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To: mylife

Great question! What are the common people of the nation to do in the face of this foreseeable natural disaster? He should have had generators at the ready, he is “the One” you know!


10 posted on 01/28/2009 6:56:04 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: ConservaTexan

I am holding out for FEMA pie.


11 posted on 01/28/2009 6:56:15 PM PST by Ditter
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To: PAR35

Mid Feb?


12 posted on 01/28/2009 6:57:05 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: PAR35
Well over a million people shivered in ice-bound homes across the country

Ignorance is a terrible thing!!

13 posted on 01/28/2009 6:57:51 PM PST by org.whodat (Conservatives don't vote for Bailouts for Super-Rich Bankers! Republicans do!)
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To: PAR35

Barry Obama doesn’t care about white people..

Our power was out once for five days after a tornado hit the area. I feel very sorry for these people. At least it was October and not so cold. We spent alot of time sleeping. And actually met some neighbors we rarely saw and never talked to...


14 posted on 01/28/2009 6:58:27 PM PST by Fu-fu2
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To: ConservaTexan
Where’s my crate of Heineken?

At least you won't have any trouble keeping it cold.

15 posted on 01/28/2009 6:58:33 PM PST by PAR35
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To: mylife
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16 posted on 01/28/2009 6:58:35 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Ditter

Mmmmm... Female pie...


17 posted on 01/28/2009 6:58:46 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: cripplecreek

L0L


18 posted on 01/28/2009 6:59:18 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: PAR35
Hey Gore, how's that Global Warming thing going?
19 posted on 01/28/2009 6:59:55 PM PST by tobyhill (Obama gets no free pass from Free Republic!)
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To: mylife

LOL! Not exactly what I meant, I prefer apple or peach.


20 posted on 01/28/2009 7:01:48 PM PST by Ditter
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