Its about time someone said it like it is!

That is the one part that actually made me laugh out loud.

LP- yes I know, but someone actually spent time coming up with this garbage and circulated it.

4boysmom, that has to be the one There has not been anything like it since and only a few before that, a lomg time ago, acording to my friend who is 86 yrs old and biorn and raised here ona farm.
Many other od residents say the same thing.
All those old folks remember the "dirty 30s" the long drought that blew all the top soil away. Nobody had electricty on the farms or in small towns (that was before the rural elctrifiction program came this far north) They cooked on coal or kerosene stoves. They had clouds of grasshoppers that even ate fence posts. It was the same thing that happened in Oklahoma and cause so many from there to migrate to California. Mos farms here did not getelectricity until after the war
(WW2). Can you imagine that in 110 degree heat. My firned said her mother hung wet sheets over the windows to keep the dust out but it did not really help because they dried out so fast.
I lady my age use to a libraruian ina school and she has many old books and newspapers from that time, it is all documented.
Yes they used to have blizzards but this last one in 97 was one of the worse. They say it is a good thing it happened in March instead of Nov or December.
We have not had much snow or rain in the last 3 years and have drougth condition on many farms, unless they are river bottom in the eastern part.
Western ND has been very dry. Wehave not even had barely an inch of snow so far, and is two snow falls. Yesterday it was 50 degrees and not much cooler today. But I herd we can expect cold to move in withn a few days and they expect temps down to -30.
So, yes, the author must be taliing about the 97 blizzard. Like i said, it is just another one of those crazy things going around.
I don't get any, want any or open any forwards of any kind. Saves a lot of trouble.
Grelo

Republications... making up their own reality in circulating the same phoney fairytale for two years -- enough of the fakery already.

Quick! Look out of the window, its a flying pig flapping off into the sunset...

I sdaw it, I saw it, but i could have sworn it was a flying elephant

Hah! Why, so it is... the glare off said phachyderm's wide ass, nearly blinded me. I stand corrected

LOL grelo!

LP, talking about pchyderms, I have a picture hanging in my kitchen. It is of the huge rear and of a Hippo. Originally it was the back cover of German magaine my mother sent to me when she was almost my age.
I had a friend take a pic of it and had a print made (better quity paper) and franed it.
Underneath the picture it says:

Ihr Koennt mich alle mal ........

loseley translated:
All of you can kiss my a$$.

Hard to beleieve, but that picture has had many admirers and caused many chuckles.
Grelo

I had to laugh the first time I saw this. Going one step further on grelo's account of the storms in 97--google the flood of 97--Grand Forks ND. Guess what?
The pres did come
FEMA did a great deal.
Plenty of people howled
It was covered by all media outlets and one donor gave out 2K per household.
Human nature is the same in all parts of the country. There was also a ton of wonderful human interest stories that came from the flood of 97 also.

Yes, I remeber seeing the flood on TV. Grand Forks and parts of Fargo flood easily.
This far north I think the Red River is the only one that flows north.
I am clear at the other end of the state, in the sw corner, not much water here.
Super, if something flaps while flying it's has to be the ears of an elephant.
Sorry, LP, I h just had a side-view so can't testify about the glare of the posterior.But then, isn't evrything connected with the elephant glittering gold?

BTW, if I remember correctly, the flood was caused by all the melt run-off from the blizzard. It did not hit quite as hard there as in Mt and the western part of ND but still a lot of snow there. The get a lot more rain than we do.

i love reading your posts, grelo. you have great stories.
i remember hearing about the flood. all that snow melted, and the land is so flat, like a tabletop, the water had no where to go.

The flood actually evactuated the entire communities of Grand Forks ND and East Grand Forks MN. (50K) At the time I remember hearing that it was the largest evactuation in the U.S. I lived in Williston at the time but moved to Grand Forks a year later.
In the east part of the state it was a series of blizzards over a period of time and then in April it all melted--far too quickly. That day in April is a day no one here forgets.

whew---I really can spell sometimes--proof proof proof......LOL

grelo-- I read this thread from beginning to end. I wanted to comment, but it seems that you have been doing a fine job.

Dh's cousin lives in ND- they were living in Hatton at that time of the '97 blizzard). His wife did have a few bad days because she sleeps with one of those CPAP machines for sleep apnea. But in general, I would agree with all that you have said. Those folks up there prepare for the worst winter storms and always have been prepared.

and yes, there was flooding in that area, but that was mostly due to the massive melting of snow that was happening at the time. and yes, some of those folks do live in those low-lying flood-plain type areas that never got hit by floods in the last 500 years.

But to equate the folks of the '97 blizzard with the the '05 Katrina victims--- to me, those are two different things altogether.

To have flood waters from a broken dam suddenly rising and in a matter of minutes take over your entire life--and at that point, the sewers and all of the chemicals in that area (household, sewage, etc. )are rising and bringing all their poisons along with them.
--that is something else. and it was inevitable that this was going to happen.