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Anyone from the Dacotas?
Rosie
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How bad is the weather in the winter? Summer?
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"Not as deep as a well, or as wide as a church door, but it is enough."
It was 117 last saturday at a town southeast of me 50 miles and have seen it -38 below in the winter once have seen 80-90 below wind chills "out side in it feeding cattle not nice.
doc
ps thats the extremes. best of both worlds HOT n COLD
I dont give my guns without somebody getting hurt!
"Not as deep as a well, or as wide as a church door, but it is enough."
North Dakotan, born and bred, so guess I'm qualified to tell ya a bit about my state.
It's not as bad as Saxon was saying. I think that somebody was pullin' yer leg a bit, Saxon. In the 49 years that I've been on this Earth, I have never heard of an actual 70 degrees below zero in ND. 70 below WIND CHILL, sure, that's fairly common. Normally, the coldest it gets is around 40 to 45 below, and that doesn't usually last too long. Then it warms up to 15 to 20 below. We also have an awful lot of 20 degree ABOVE zero days too, that's when the heavy jackets get shed. Unbelieveable how warm 20 above seems when it follows right on the heels of 20 below!
Also, I would question the $1000 heat bill for one month. I live in a drafty old farmhouse (my greatgrandparents built it in 1902, although it has had some improvements made on it over the years), and I never spend $1000 to heat it for the whole year.
Summers can be hot and humid, but once again, those periods don't last long. Summers are actually quite pleasant here. Except when the mosquitos get bad. They are the unofficial State Bird of ND!
If you ever make it up to north central ND, Rosie, let me know. Be honored to meet ya.(You don't even need to bring all that cash you were alluding to in a previous thread!)
There isn't one.
We still leave our houses unlocked and keys in the ignitions of our vehicles. It's a common sight, in the winter, to go to the grocery store, a bar, or wherever, and see half the vehicles in the lot are running, keeping the heater going, unlocked, keys in the ignition. Only rarely does one get "borrowed", and it is usually found undamaged someplace else in town.
In the winter, especially out in the country, away from any town, leaving your house unlocked can save somebody's life if their vehicle gets stuck or otherwise disabled.
A few years back, one of my neighbors went for a two week trip in the middle of the winter and locked up before he left. Sure as shootin', somebody got stuck near his place. My neighbor returned home to find his door broken down. He also found a note, though. The guy who got stuck left his name, address, and phone number, along with an apology for breaking the door, and an offer to replace the door and repair any other damages, but he was desperate, and freezing to death.
I don't think we even have keys for the back door to our house. I know my mom and dad don't have keys for their locks. Life is good:) We really shouldn't be telling people this stuff. Before you know it we will have people living everywhere and traffic to go with it. Hell I get mad if I see another car on the road on my way to work. Unless it is someone I know. And EVERYBODY waves when they pass on the road.
When I was in the Army smome smartass would usually say "What is in South Dakota you guys don't even have a football/basketball team?" I would just look and say "nothing absolutely nothing".
But yer still a yankee
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ND road rage is when the other guy doesn't wave back!
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Jan and july are the worst months here july gets hot and jan gets cold other wise its pretty decent here "old saying here is if you dont like the weather just wait 5 min it will change" it can change very suddenly here remember one day in sept baling some sudan grass it was 114 deg the next day it snowed on me and thats no crap.
we dont have much mosquito problem here this year. some years they are bad when it is very wet but this year we have only had about 3" of rain all spring and summer so no mosquitos but thats about the only thing good about being in a drought.
if i was to move to a more moderate climate in SD it would be near or in the black hills (lot of the time we are at zero deg and they will be in the 20's-30's) they generally dont get as near as cold as we do here in the rest of the state, we got this big lake plain that goes clear up into canada thats how come we get so cold here in the winter.
I dont give my guns without somebody getting hurt!
doc
also what .280freak and warpig said about crime just about doesnt exist
cept in sioux fall and rapid city
Edited by - cowdoc on 08/03/2002 13:52:55
Edited by - cowdoc on 08/03/2002 13:56:49
doc
I dont give my guns without somebody getting hurt!
I mean, to a guy raised in New York City, Minneapolis would probably seem small and tame!
we were in Minneapolis couple weekends ago for my wifes cousins wedding. we met my wifes family at a cemetary where my father inlaws parents are buried any how i got into the city and had to use a restroom very bad so i pulled up to a gas station this was very near 36th st and henipen (sp), man i was the only cowboy looking person in many miles i am sure, i can tell you that i think i would not be in that part of town after dark looked like a good place to get capped to me. told my wife next time we go to minneapolis i am packing my shooting iron.
yes sioux fall is pretty mild to large city but has a more crime than small towns like i grewup near. the only crime that happened in my small town was that we drank quite abit of beer on sat nite and maybe parked some tractors on main street from the local machinery dealers lot :-)
i dont enevy any person that lives in a big city at all. i like it right where i am at .....there sre only four families that live in my township 36 square miles :-)
doc
I dont give my guns without somebody getting hurt!
it has been said that a democrat here is as conservative as a east coast conservative which probabaly is true for the most part execpt dashle has been in dc to long.
old hichory yes we got very good pheasant hunting here in fact couple years ago had some relitives here hunting they told me that so many pheasants where boiling out that they didnt know which ones to shoot at.
at my parents place my brother and some of his friends and my brother inlaws where hunting(6 guys) had eighteen birds in less than a half hour.
but this year with it being so dry here i dont think they had very good hatches i think the young chicks didnt fair to well because we didnt have any mornings that there was any dew on the grass which they need for water to survive...i do see young ones though so is hard to tell how they have faired this summmer for sure.
doc
I dont give my guns without somebody getting hurt!