Posted by: Blast
I didn't think North Dakota had 800 people!
Posted by: Richlacal
Re: I didn't think North Dakota had 800 people! - 03/13/11 03:52 AM
They Don't,They have 796,the other 4 were Rescuers!:)
Posted by: MoBOB
Re: I didn't think North Dakota had 800 people! - 03/13/11 05:15 AM
My niece is one of them.....She said it was miserable.
Posted by: Blast
Re: I didn't think North Dakota had 800 people! - 03/13/11 12:11 PM
Originally Posted By: MoBOB
My niece is one of them.....She said it was miserable.
Did she learn anything?
-Blast
Posted by: bacpacjac
Re: I didn't think North Dakota had 800 people! - 03/13/11 01:42 PM
that's the million dollar question Blast!
Posted by: kd7fqd
Re: I didn't think North Dakota had 800 people! - 03/13/11 04:56 PM
Originally Posted By: Richlacal
They Don't,They have 796,the other 4 were Rescuers!:)
Of the 796 "residents" 700 were passin thru
Posted by: philip
Re: I didn't think North Dakota had 800 people! - 03/13/11 08:09 PM
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.
Quote:
North Dakota State College freshman Katie Woodbury was driving from the school in Fargo to her family's farm in Stanley, in northwest North Dakota, when road conditions forced her take shelter at a church in Medina.
"It was scary _ I was talking to myself the whole time," she said of her drive. "I just want to get home and see my mom and dad and the 13 new piglets at the farm."
"It was scary _ I was talking to myself the whole time," she said of her drive. "I just want to get home and see my mom and dad and the 13 new piglets at the farm."
I was at Minot AFB in the early 70s, and I'm not sorry to be in the San Francisco Bay Area nowadays.
Posted by: Bill_G
Re: I didn't think North Dakota had 800 people! - 03/13/11 09:01 PM
Originally Posted By: philip
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.
Quote:
North Dakota State College freshman Katie Woodbury was driving from the school in Fargo to her family's farm in Stanley, in northwest North Dakota, when road conditions forced her take shelter at a church in Medina.
"It was scary _ I was talking to myself the whole time," she said of her drive. "I just want to get home and see my mom and dad and the 13 new piglets at the farm."
"It was scary _ I was talking to myself the whole time," she said of her drive. "I just want to get home and see my mom and dad and the 13 new piglets at the farm."
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.
Posted by: KG2V
Re: I didn't think North Dakota had 800 people! - 03/13/11 11:32 PM
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
Posted by: Roarmeister
Re: I didn't think North Dakota had 800 people! - 03/14/11 05:48 PM
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
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
Posted by: ireckon
Re: I didn't think North Dakota had 800 people! - 03/14/11 07:15 PM
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.
Posted by: Bill_G
Re: I didn't think North Dakota had 800 people! - 03/14/11 11:32 PM
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.
Posted by: Roarmeister
Re: I didn't think North Dakota had 800 people! - 03/15/11 01:05 AM
Originally Posted By: ireckon
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.
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!
Posted by: Byrd_Huntr
Re: I didn't think North Dakota had 800 people! - 03/18/11 12:55 AM
We have North Dakota weather and Minnesota taxes. Who's laughing?
Posted by: Blast
Re: I didn't think North Dakota had 800 people! - 03/18/11 12:58 AM
Originally Posted By: Bill_G
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.
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
Posted by: Bill_G
Re: I didn't think North Dakota had 800 people! - 03/18/11 10:43 PM
Originally Posted By: Blast
Originally Posted By: Bill_G
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.
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.
Posted by: MoBOB
Re: I didn't think North Dakota had 800 people! - 03/21/11 02:41 AM
Originally Posted By: Blast
Originally Posted By: MoBOB
My niece is one of them.....She said it was miserable.
Did she learn anything?
-Blast
She did not get stuck in the blizzard. Sorry for the misleading comment. She just lives there. And it is still miserable.
Posted by: MoBOB
Re: I didn't think North Dakota had 800 people! - 03/21/11 02:44 AM
Originally Posted By: Bill_G
Originally Posted By: philip
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.
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.
Posted by: MoBOB
Re: I didn't think North Dakota had 800 people! - 03/21/11 02:48 AM
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.
Posted by: MoBOB
Re: I didn't think North Dakota had 800 people! - 03/21/11 02:52 AM
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.
Posted by: Roarmeister
Re: I didn't think North Dakota had 800 people! - 03/23/11 06:28 AM
Originally Posted By: MoBOB
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.