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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This facebook posting from a friend says it all....

While Virginia closes up all schools & businesses because its raining & blowing 25-30 mph... our counterparts in WV have schools open with blizzard conditions... and we make fun of them.[/quote]

As someone who grew up in the rugged Appalachian mountains in West Virginia, with a coal miner father and coal miner brothers, I can assure you, WVA is not full of whiners and complainers.  It is shocking to see an entire region full of such privileged people who engage in so much bitching and complaining.  Believe it or not, there are people in WVA who live in homes without electricity, on a daily basis....people who cut coal out of the sides of the mountain roads to heat their house. And guess what? Many of them are happy! Imagine!

I did not even know that I grew up in poverty until I moved here. I guess having it hard is a matter of perspective. For some, that means rain and wind, for others, that means losing your father to a horrid lung disease,  so people can run their 45 appliances and rev up their heaters up to heat all 5,000sq feet of their home.
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