800 motorists rescued in ND blizzard

Once again, I'm REALLY glad I no longer live up there.
-Blast

They Don't,They have 796,the other 4 were Rescuers!:)

My niece is one of them.....She said it was miserable.

Did she learn anything?
-Blast

that's the million dollar question Blast!

Of the 796 "residents" 700 were passin thru

My favorite part of the article:



I was at Minot AFB in the early 70s, and I'm not sorry to be in the San Francisco Bay Area nowadays.

At Grand Forks AFB in late '70s... Florida is nice this time of year.

What's really scary is that you CAN express the percentage of people stranded and not sound really silly - .12% of the population of ND

The same white-out conditions created a 20 car pileup in a tiny community in Saskatchewan just north of ND.
Conditions turned from bad to really bad in under a minute. Glad I wasn't on the road that day.

http://www.leaderpost.com/news/Whiteout+near+Midale/4428713/story.html

Wow, North Dakota must be terrible if it's bashed on survival website. That's one state that has never crossed my mind to visit.

Not sure about "terrible", but it has it's weather moments. Of course the terrain can contribute to the problems. Two things I always said about eastern ND - 1) it never snows in ND, it just blows in from Canada and back from Minnesota, and 2) most table tops have more bumps on it than the terrain in eastern ND.

Now now, let's not resort to inter-state bashing in these forums. After all ND is financially solvent, oil rich and has very low unemployment whereas California is... well... ISN'T. [tongue in cheek]

I personally like the state. I've driven though it a number of times... it reminds me of home!

We have North Dakota weather and Minnesota taxes. Who's laughing?

I was raised in central Minnesota, my brother attended NDSU up in Fargo while I went to SDSU in Brooking, South Dakota (Go Jackrabbits!!). I'm allowed to bash North Dakota.

-Blast

My experience is only 2 1/2 years at Grand Forks AFB. Amazing to me how different the land is on the east and west sides of the Red River.

She did not get stuck in the blizzard. Sorry for the misleading comment. She just lives there. And it is still miserable.

Sorry boys, I did my time at Loring in the early 80's. We had it easy compared to you guys. Back in Upstate New York; I didn't learn anything.

As you leave Fargo heading west on I-94, there is a sign that says "Depressed Road". No lie! That is just plain bad advertising.

Anyone been to Daisy, ND? I have. I have also been to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. I just had to go to a place with that name. I did it on my drive back from Alaska.

Dazey, ND??

Ah good 'ole Moose Jaw. The city that time forgot.
Home of 15 Wing air base and the RCAF 431 Squadron - Snowbirds aeronautical team.

They still have an number of downtown tunnels, built in the 1910-20s by Chinese immigrants. Later Moose Jaw became one of the main smuggling points in Al Capone's network to smuggle liquor to Chicago. They city plays up the story that Capone himself once used the tunnels as a hideout.