In an email sent to me recently it hit home how a community can come together during a difficult time. Without fanfare, without assistance, without the Government, without the press or news celebrities. Just each other and the desire to help and the willingness to accept what has occurred and then work hard to get through it.

The same philosophies are in bred in almost every self made man or woman in about any industry. In my business of Web design, Web hosting and Search Engine Marketing there are many that would prefer to take the easy way, dishonest way, or attempt somehow to use tactics that eventually get their clients and themselves blackballed from top engines. Once their methods are discovered and penalized then they cry foul and attempt to blame someone else. There is nothing that can replace the “right” way in any situation.

Take a look at the events of this community with a category “5″ snowstorm. I found it uplifting and certainly hope that when tragedy strikes close to home this is how our community will respond.

The article originated from one of the County Emergency Managers in North Dakota by the name of Arte Lange:“Up here, in the Northern Plains, we just recovered from a Historic event— may I even say a Weather Event of Biblical Proportions, with a historic blizzard of up to 44″ inches of snow and winds up to 90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10’s of thousands”George Bush did not come. FEMA did nothing. No one howled for the government.

No one blamed the government. No one even uttered an expletive on TV.

Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit. Our Mayor did not blame Bush or anyone else.

Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else, either.

CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC did not visit - or report on this category 5 snowstorm. Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.

No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House. No one looted.

Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something. Nobody expected the government to do anything, either.

No Larry King, No Bill O’Rielly, No Oprah and No Geraldo Rivera. No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found.

Nope, we just melted the snow for water. Sent out caravans of SUV’s to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars. The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn’t ask for a penny. Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snowbound families. Families took in the stranded people - total strangers. We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns.

We put on extra layers of clothes because up here it is “Work or Die”. We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for ’sittin at home’ checks.

Maybe SOME people will get the message. The world does Not owe you a living

Tragedy can strike at the worst possible moment and sometimes it just can’t be explained. The only way to deal with it is just to roll up your sleeves or in this situation get another pair of thermal underwear on and then get out in it. The easy road in any situation in life or in business always comes with a price. The unfortunate thing is that price is often times paid by someone else, usually a tax payer that just goes to work everyday and tries to do his/her best to give an honest days work for an honest days pay, or a business that delivers what they say they will for the price they quoted. It really doesn’t matter whether it is a shirt, an Ipod, a new car or a well designed website. WE ALL JUST NEED TO DO WHAT WE SAY AND BE READY TO STEP UP AND HELP WHEN THE NEED ARISES!