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http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/070217/K021702AU.html
I passed through this place in Jan./ 69 as a blizzard was raging across the countryside.
It's not far from Minot is it? 
Egon
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Re: North Dakota
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03/05/07 04:36 PM
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Egon, Minot is way closer to Canada than Bismark Mandan area but the inhabitants are just about as crazy.
Hey Lars, how's yours? Mines fine Oly, how's yours? Well I got to get on down to the Sons of Norway Hall, I promised to fire up the stove ahead of the meeting where this week we will be in for a real treat. Sven is going to show us his slides from his ice fishing derby and then Mable Lundqvist will play the tape she bought when she went on down to Minneapolis to the Prairie Home Companion show and got Garrison Keeler's autograph.
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Re: North Dakota
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03/06/07 04:23 AM
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Sounds just like a movie I saw that was based in the same area. "Yaw"
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Re: North Dakota
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03/06/07 07:03 AM
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Egon, You refer to "Fargo" which I really liked. It sure brought back lots of memories since Minot is a lot like the Fargo area just MORE SO!
Even the sound of dry snow scrunching under their feet was well done.
Pat
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03/06/07 02:43 PM
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That dry crunch sent shivers up my spine just thinking of the cold.
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03/06/07 03:02 PM
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Well lad, cold shiver, eh? Well wipe the starch off your feet and come over here by the crackling cellophane and warm up.
If you are a fan of old time radio you will understand.
By the way, how deep does the snow get around your house? When we were in a Government supplied house (single story on foundation with crawl space) at Minot AFB we would get drifts with a crust that would support me to walk on them and they would get deep enough that I could walk up a drift onto the roof of the house.
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03/07/07 04:50 AM
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Snow depth depends on the storms intensity and wind direction. Somewhere I have a photo of the backyard showing a drift where two cars were parked but not visible.
Back in Alberta I can remember roads drifted in to the top of the telephone poles yet some fields were almost bare.
Right now we are having the coldest weather of the year. -4F and no relief in sight.
It's book time.
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03/07/07 05:43 PM
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Hey Egon, time to break out your shorts! After tonight's -25C (-5F), Sunday's forecast is +10C (50F), just for a change! 
Ian M.
Transferred to Nova Scotia, making plans to retire as soon as the economy lets me!
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03/08/07 05:25 AM
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Hey NS, I' m being real conservative in my thinking now. Last week on the drive home from the beach I mentioned something about " Spring is Here " only to find the real winter had yet not occurred. 
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Re: North Dakota
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03/08/07 09:35 AM
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My Grandmother came from Yankton SD; Great Grandparents moved there from the old country in 1880 or so. Grandma and my great Uncles talked of tying a rope from the house to the barn so you could go tend animals. The snow would get very deep, and during a strom would be a total white out; you could get 20' from the house and be totally lost. Apparently this happened too frequently; Pa or Junior would go to feed the animals, never to be seen again until things thawed enough to find the body.
Grandma also talked of how a school teacher sent grade school kids home as a storm was approaching; lost a couple of them to the blizzard. School teacher went crazy afterwards.
It makes you wonder, how did Native American's weather out these conditions? Living in a tent in these condition in many cases... For history predating European arrivals.
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03/08/07 09:55 AM
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Robert, When I was stationed at Minot AFB there was a case where a local high school girl was out in the barn helping her parents with the milking and left to go the short distance to the house to do her school work. Next morning she didn't come down for breakfast and when her mom went to wake the oversleeper her bed wasn't slept in. For some reason she had become disoriented and missed the house and froze to death in the back yard. There were strong winds and blowing snow and temps well below zero F. Another risky behavior is not dressing for the conditions because you are only going to be outside for just a minute... Then you slip and fall or something and you are in the grip of hypothermia in moments.
Her death was totally preventable BUT they didn't have a rope to follow as they should have. Familiarity breeds contempt.
How the "Indians" made it? The ones not predisposed to being able to "handle" the conditions were eliminated from the gene pool early in the tribe's occupation of the area. The Indians in that area included the Mandans and the Flatheads who constructed large permanent winter lodges of logs and earth. Still not a picnic by any means but not all that difficult compared to say the Lapp, Inuit or Aleut.
Pat
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03/08/07 11:10 AM
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Egon, I can recall cars left on the roadside along the federal highway between Minot and the air base would only have their radio aerials showing above the snow, if that. Huge drifts would pile up in certain places in a day or two and then the wind direction would change and they would disappear and reform in other locations.
A big joke back they was about being pure as the driven snow. A look at a drift gave the truth. There would be alternating layers of snow and dirt.
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Tents are not that bad to live in during winter conditions as long as one has a good source of heat.
The natives also had winter camping spots that took advantage of terrain for better living conditions.
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Re: North Dakota
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03/30/07 12:54 PM
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Pat,
My Uncles had thier car run over by a tank...
My Grandparents were living in Herlong, a town half way between Reno Nv and Susanville Ca. My uncles were in high school. they had worked long and hard to build up a Mercury; had built a warmed over flathead, lake pipes, paint, etc.
It snowed... a LOT... Lots of cars parked along the street in front of houses.
Herlong happenes to be an US Army munitions depot. So, there were various military vehicles around, including tanks. After the big snow, they had equipment out clearing roads. Why tanks, I do not know. But, one of those tanks ran over my two uncles newly customized Merc... Flatter than a pancake!
this was an amazing series of storms that dumped incredible amounts of snow on the Sierra. To give an idea, US40, which later became Interstate-80, one of the major East/West highways in the US, was shut down over Donner Summit for SIX weeks! It buried highways, houses, businesses... It was a record storm, the likes of which had not been seen for years, the likes of which buried the Donner Party.
I have seen pictures in books about the Truckee/Donner area. It was amaxing how deep the snow was, and how long it fell.
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Re: North Dakota
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03/30/07 02:18 PM
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Robert, Hard to top that story or even get close. The closest I can come is: The previous owner of my property was in the dozer business. One day a guy parked his brand new just bought pickup behind one of the big dozers and the driver didn't see it or feel it when he backed up. Looked like a flattened aluminum beverage can. Oh well, stuff happens.
Did the Army pay off on the auto destruction?
While I was in Minot the only thing ever destroyed by a snow blower clearing parking and taxi areas on the flight line was a couple air policemen who may have been napping on the job and could have been frozen when pureed.
I have been over all those areas multiple times.
A friend of mine turned in a reservation with a restaurant hostess and when the list worked its way down to his entry it got several chuckles. He signed up as a party of 19, the Donner party. She announced over the PA system in the waiting area, "DONNER party or 19."
Pat
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