Snowbound

There was a storm here in Arizona a couple weeks back, rained several inches in Phoenix and there was some flooding, but the worst was further north around Flagstaff where they got four feet of snow in five days.

The Navajo live up there on a reservation that covers 26000 square miles over Arizona, Utah and New Mexico.

Now with this much snow, you gotta know there will be some problems. Especially after a storm such as the one that just passed through. The Navajo are cut off from the rest of the world, have been since the last week of January. What, no one thought of a snowmobile? Arctic Cat, Polaris, Skidoo -- they'd love to offer their product for use. Think of the positive publicity!

But no. The national guard is using other means, obviously without much success since the people are still hungry. Helicopter drops? Maybe they tried it, maybe not. I don't have that information. But I do know that some military rations finally did get in to the people -- but the writing on the packages was in English, and 60% of the residents there don't speak it or read it, altho I expect they've interacted with the white man at some time or another over the past 600 years.

There's nothing wrong with snowmobiles. And there's nothing wrong about learning to speak English.