{"id":13270,"date":"2013-02-08T19:38:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T19:38:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-02-08T19:38:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T19:38:25","slug":"blizzard_survivors_tell_their_stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/08\/blizzard_survivors_tell_their_stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard Survivors Tell Their Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Bill in St. Louis. Bill, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, I just want to tell you, I was a survivor of the January 1978 snowfall in Providence, Rhode Island, and it was 44 inches. We had two inches an hour for 22 straight hours. This snowstorm I would suggest is not anywhere near that, but the problem, I would say, is that I would never trust the forecasting to predict anything, because they didn\u2019t predict what I was in. I was in downtown Providence when it started. There was no snow on the ground and I didn\u2019t even know it was gonna snow. And let me warn your listeners, too, and I think it\u2019s appropriate for you to point out specifically because I don\u2019t think you\u2019ve touched the subject. Where I was staying at the Marriott in Providence, the only female companionship I had was a feminazi lawyer from San Francisco. That is horror.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Was that by accident or by design?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: I didn\u2019t know she was staying there. I literally dragged her to that hotel where she was staying, because she couldn\u2019t have made it because it was snowing so hard.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s another thing to consider. Make sure that you have some kind of agreeable, acceptable, mutually agreed-upon companionship. Oh, my God, that\u2019s an excellent — and this is from an actual survivor of one of these killer storms, folks. I\u2019m so glad you got through. This is not to be taken lightly. Yeah, stuck in a hotel, feminazi from San Francisco in the middle of… I don\u2019t even want to think about it. You deserve a medal. You had to survive even more than the storm, and you did, and you are here today to talk about it because you followed the guidelines issued by the authorities back then and you improvised at the right time as well. Thank you, Bill. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jim in Singers Glen, Virginia. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Greetings, sir. Thank you for calling.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, I\u2019ve been listening to the show today, and I just want to tell you that I think at times like these you should be a little more serious and stick to the issues.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you mean?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I hear you talking about Marco Rubio and Republican strategerists, Democrat strategists, talking about Maxine Waters and a secret database. I don\u2019t think this is the time for that. I think you should stick to the issues. There\u2019s a serious snowstorm on the way, an historic snowstorm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: My gosh, I can\u2019t win. I can\u2019t win for trying.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, people need these tips. I\u2019m a survivor, too. I\u2019ve been in eight to 12 inches of snow. I\u2019ve been in 22 inches of snow. We need tips. We need to know what to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You sound like Ed Rollins, in which case you would need the tip, I agree. Well, Jim, I appreciate the call. Thanks. See what kind of stuff I get? No matter what I do, here\u2019s the stick-to-the-issues crowd, not enough tips. I can understand this, folks. There is a genuine killer storm. It\u2019s actually already started. I watched it. You can see the snow on TV. The snow is falling. It\u2019s accumulated already an inch because of heavy drifting. It doesn\u2019t look good. Has anybody put in motion whatever you have to do for the aid, the relief bill, declare disaster, emergency, whatever you have to do to get federal funding to clean up? And the concert, has anybody planned the concert? We did a concert after Hurricane Sandy. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

There\u2019s gotta be a concert for this, a concert in Boston, a concert in New York, and who knows wherever else. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: JoAnne in Laurel Run, Pennsylvania. Hi JoAnne, I\u2019m glad you called. It\u2019s great to have you here with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, God bless you. I hope you\u2019re around for many, many years to get us through this. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s a terrible, terrible time in our land, but every time your music comes on I\u2019m dancing in my house. (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Thank you very much. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I have you on two radios at all time, one end of the house to the other.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that, thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that last caller you had. He\u2019s one of those people out there that\u2019s waiting for the government to tell him how to wipe himself after he goes to the bathroom. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look, I know you have that attitude, but the guy is scared. I mean, he\u2019s one of these people that doesn\u2019t think he might be able to get through the next three days without some kind of assistance or tips from me. I took it that he was grateful.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, well, then I hope he\u2019s listening. I\u2019m going to be 65 this year. I go out six nights a week to do my job. If I don\u2019t go do my job, I don\u2019t have a job. Back in the eighties when I was in my forties we had 101 inches total snow. There was so much snow it was like mountains.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, that was for the whole year.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, but it was so high there were mountains of snow. I mean, people were fighting with one another because you took their parking place or because you were shoveling the snow into their backyard. I mean it was horrific. It\u2019s just our weather.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, no, no, no, wait a minute. That\u2019s 20 years ago. This is what old people do. They come around, they tell young people how bad it was and how horrible it was, and you just don\u2019t understand what life is like today.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I didn\u2019t hate it, though. It was the weather, it was the season. You got snow.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but it\u2019s global warming now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, we know it isn\u2019t, Rush. I just feel bad for our country. You know, Rush to another scenario. I had four uncles in the Second World War. My uncle Al was shot down and lived through the Bataan Death March. I turned Republican when Reagan ran and we\u2019ve been going downhill since and I\u2019m crushed that people don\u2019t see what\u2019s happened to this beautiful land that God gave us. I\u2019m crushed and I don\u2019t know what to do to help. I was in a fog a week after the election in disbelief. I won\u2019t even turn on Fox because some of their commentators I don\u2019t care for with the stuff that they fed me through the whole thing, which I watched religiously before I went to work, when I came home from work. I can\u2019t even listen to them anymore.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m hearing that from a lot of people, by the way.<\/p>\n

CALLER: There\u2019s a handful of Republicans, but they\u2019re not speaking loud enough. They\u2019re not speaking for our Constitution. We\u2019re not teaching our children in school. Thank God for my kids, they\u2019re teaching my grandchildren, and I have great-grandchildren now, where our country stood and what it stands for.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But we don\u2019t get that in our public schools. If you don\u2019t teach them they\u2019re not getting it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. This is a major problem, one we\u2019ve discussed on this program and one that I\u2019m intrigued by terms of trying to do something about it. Nothing to say on it right now, but that\u2019s something\u2019s gonna have to change. The education system is what gives — I mean, Obama is a product of it. I mean, he didn\u2019t come out of the womb thinking this radical stuff. He had to have this stuff taught to him, and he had to be persuaded, and it worked. Everybody, practically in kindergarten, gets inculcated with this stuff. It\u2019s actually an indoctrination, not an education, and the biggest enemy that these people think they\u2019ve got in the world today is us, conservatives and Republicans. That\u2019s how they\u2019re taught. They\u2019re taught this stuff and they\u2019re pummeled with it every day, from the earliest days of their educated lives. And it\u2019s gonna be a major project to reverse that and overcome it, but it\u2019s gonna have to happen.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, Rush, I don\u2019t know if this is true and maybe Snerdley could check into it, but I was down at my sister\u2019s yesterday, my brother-in-law said it was on the Internet, that Obama was pledging allegiance with his left hand.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, that\u2019s. No, no, no.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s not true?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no. That\u2019s an old thing that goes back to the campaign of \u201908. That\u2019s not the problem. Even if that did happen, that\u2019s not gonna change anybody\u2019s mind about the guy. They\u2019re just gonna reject it. Even if you\u2019ve got proof, people aren\u2019t gonna believe that. That\u2019s not the way we\u2019re gonna have to go about this. Look, he\u2019s here. Nothing is gonna change the outcome of the election, either in 2008 or 2012. That\u2019s part of the reality that we have to face and accept and deal with accordingly. There isn\u2019t gonna be any impeaching Obama or any of that. <\/p>\n

Now, I fully am expecting there to be events that occur that nobody can predict, there always are, that always upset what appears to be a steaming locomotive that can\u2019t be stopped. And I think we\u2019ve gotten to the point where it is gonna take an event or a series of events to wake people up, and I think it\u2019s already starting to happen. The New York Times has a story today on the absolute pain and suffering in this country over a tiny tax increase. And they\u2019re not blaming the Republicans in this. Look, there is much, much more economic reality to settle in here, and people\u2019s economic circumstances are going to worsen. There\u2019s nothing that is gonna stop that from happening. <\/p>\n

So just don\u2019t give up the ship out there and don\u2019t throw up your hands. You don\u2019t sound like someone that would do that anyway. You just hang in there and be tough because the time is going to come when you will be heard again and you will be listened to. The time is gonna come where people are gonna ask you to explain what really happened to them. That time is coming, for all of us. Do not doubt me. I\u2019m glad you called. I appreciate it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Here\u2019s Bill in St. Louis. Bill, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here. CALLER: Hey, Rush, I just want to tell you, I was a survivor of the January 1978 snowfall in Providence, Rhode Island, and it was 44 inches. We had two inches an hour for 22 straight hours. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nBlizzard Survivors Tell Their Stories - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/08\/blizzard_survivors_tell_their_stories\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Blizzard Survivors Tell Their Stories - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Here\u2019s Bill in St. Louis. Bill, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here. CALLER: Hey, Rush, I just want to tell you, I was a survivor of the January 1978 snowfall in Providence, Rhode Island, and it was 44 inches. We had two inches an hour for 22 straight hours. This […]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"GeorgePrayias\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"9 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/\",\"name\":\"The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"description\":\"Excellence In Broadcasting\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/08\/blizzard_survivors_tell_their_stories\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/08\/blizzard_survivors_tell_their_stories\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/08\/blizzard_survivors_tell_their_stories\/\",\"name\":\"Blizzard Survivors Tell Their Stories - The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/08\/blizzard_survivors_tell_their_stories\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-02-08T19:38:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-02-08T19:38:25+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/08\/blizzard_survivors_tell_their_stories\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/08\/blizzard_survivors_tell_their_stories\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/08\/blizzard_survivors_tell_their_stories\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Blizzard Survivors Tell Their Stories\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4\",\"name\":\"GeorgePrayias\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d290ab65e2eaca3719268528f83b85bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d290ab65e2eaca3719268528f83b85bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"GeorgePrayias\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/GeorgePrayias\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Blizzard Survivors Tell Their Stories - The Rush Limbaugh Show","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/08\/blizzard_survivors_tell_their_stories\/","twitter_card":"summary","twitter_title":"Blizzard Survivors Tell Their Stories - The Rush Limbaugh Show","twitter_description":"RUSH: Here\u2019s Bill in St. Louis. Bill, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here. CALLER: Hey, Rush, I just want to tell you, I was a survivor of the January 1978 snowfall in Providence, Rhode Island, and it was 44 inches. We had two inches an hour for 22 straight hours. This […]","twitter_image":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"GeorgePrayias","Est. reading time":"9 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/#website","url":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/","name":"The Rush Limbaugh Show","description":"Excellence In Broadcasting","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/08\/blizzard_survivors_tell_their_stories\/#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/08\/blizzard_survivors_tell_their_stories\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/08\/blizzard_survivors_tell_their_stories\/","name":"Blizzard Survivors Tell Their Stories - The Rush Limbaugh Show","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/08\/blizzard_survivors_tell_their_stories\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2013-02-08T19:38:25+00:00","dateModified":"2013-02-08T19:38:25+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/08\/blizzard_survivors_tell_their_stories\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/08\/blizzard_survivors_tell_their_stories\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/08\/blizzard_survivors_tell_their_stories\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Blizzard Survivors Tell Their Stories"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4","name":"GeorgePrayias","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d290ab65e2eaca3719268528f83b85bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d290ab65e2eaca3719268528f83b85bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"GeorgePrayias"},"url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/GeorgePrayias\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}