Partly Cloudy with a Hint of Bravery

I don’t know what it is about western North Dakota, but we sure do get storms out here. I don’t remember the weather being quite as severe growing up on the eastern half of the state. Sure, we had storms, but out here we have house-rattling, Jurassic-Park-water-glass-quivering, lightening-blinding storms. And they all seem to happen [...]

A lovely day in the neighborhood

Mother nature is a cruel, heartless woman this year.  Bismarck this winter was awful- more snow on record than ever in history, along with record low temperatures (can you say -42 degrees?). This spring has been cold, wet and cloudy. This weekend, a lovely June weekend, it was 36 degrees out and sleeting. Sleeting in [...]

Ice Jam 2009 Update

Well the river has dropped back two feet now, so apparently our “bombing” efforts were successful. Bismarck brought in a demolition team to assess the ice jams and plant explosives. I watched the video and it made the fountain at the Belagio in Vegas look small. (I posted a video of the blasts on our [...]