I think that the point of my posting this is more to remind us (not that we need it) that sometimes people rely too much on the all mighty 911!

The systems that are in place can and may fail, due to either, human error, or overloading due to emergencies, or even natural disasters. We need to be ready for that.


and people need to be willing to be somewhat self reliant.

seriously no one within say 4 blocks of that house donesn't have a 4x4? even a stock subaru can push 12 inches of snow out of the way, (been there, done that)