SOMETIMES PEOPLE JUST DON'T LISTEN

By Bob Walsh

In Buffalo, 50 inches of snow have been measured as survivors are searched for. The storm has claimed the lives of 35 Buffalo residents

 

 

Buffalo NY is not a third world shithole, at least not any more than much of New York state is outside of NY city.  They get snow every winter.  They get lake effect snow every winter.  It does, from time to time, get nasty.

 

This year was / is bad.  The local authorities said ITS GONNA BE BAD.  STAY HOME.  The encouraged people to stay off the streets.  Then they ORDERED people to stay off the streets.  They have now called out the National Guard to help the state police in KEEPING people off the streets.

 

They have found something like 22 people dead from the cold in and around Buffalo.  People frozen to death in snow drifts.  People frozen to death in their cars.  I know sometimes the authorities embellish.  Sometimes they outright lie.  This storm was bad.  People KNEW it was going to be BAD.  But they wanted to go out rather than hunker down.  MAYBE some of them really needed to go out.  I mean if you really want a 40 ounce and a pack of Pall Malls you do what you gotta do, right?  Maybe I should be more sympathetic.  It is the holiday season.  But some how I have a hard time working up a ton of sympathy for someone who does something really stupid and dies because of it.  That is a hell of a price for being stupid.  It shouldn't happen.  But sometimes it does.