Listening to the news report on KOA out of Denver a couple of days ago, we heard this report.
Park County (the county directly to the west of us here) had high winds and ended up with drifts 25 feet deep in places. These drifts covered many of the county roads and trapped hundreds of people in their homes. An emergency crew worked 12 hour shifts day and night trying to get people plowed out. The reporter talked to one of the guys on one of the crews.
He said: "We've hit most of the people we're supposed to be hit. Now that we've helped all the humans, we'll start helping the ranchers."
(This may not be an exact word for word quote, but all of the important funny stuff is exact.)
Mel and I just looked at each other when we heard the report and burst out laughing. I'm sure the guy had no idea what he'd just said. Coming from a ranching family...I assure you, we are all human - and we don't want to be hit!
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hahahahaha! Reminds me of the story the older ranchers told of the winter of 1965 in North Dakota when the National Guard was called out to plow out the snowed in ranchers there. One of the ranchers went out to the road and thanked the Guard crew for plowing out his driveway (one mile long driveway). The young guardsman said, "you are welcome sir. We are almost done, this year's snow wasn't too bad, but now that we are on last year's layer of snow it is really like cement!" He wasn't from North Dakota!
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