ABC News names Kusch "Person of the Week"
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ABC News names Kusch "Person of the Week"
Kind of a tag to yesterday's debate, is my subject a lie or misstatement?
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4157223
Put me in the category of not getting too excited about the National Geographic article but it sure rankled some around here. You know it is a small state when I personally know two of the people interviewed and know the golfers they showed (about 2 seconds worth) playing Bully Pulpit golf course.
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4157223
Put me in the category of not getting too excited about the National Geographic article but it sure rankled some around here. You know it is a small state when I personally know two of the people interviewed and know the golfers they showed (about 2 seconds worth) playing Bully Pulpit golf course.
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Re: ABC News names Kusch "Person of the Week"
A misstatement. ABC selected North Dakota as Person of the Week last week!kusch wrote:Kind of a tag to yesterday's debate, is my subject a lie or misstatement?
I saw that National Geographic article (about abandoned small towns in the prairie) and don't understand why y'all are making such a fuss about it. As the NG said, it's not like they were saying that was the condition of the entire state!
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Congratulations, Kusch. I don't pretend to know if North Dakota is "a great state," but I do know that every North Dakotan I've ever met is a pretty darn great person, including you and your wife.
I've been working on a theory that extreme cold strengthens human beings, the way that extreme heat tempers steel.
I've been working on a theory that extreme cold strengthens human beings, the way that extreme heat tempers steel.
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I really do not know what the guidelines are, but there are very few school closure days. There are more in the "rural" areas as opposed to the "big cities". Normally when we get snow it is 1-3 inches, sometimes more but not often. If it is more it is usually in March/April. Cold is cold, but that will not close a school. Of course my memory may be wrong but for the total of 14 years my girls attended school I believe the number of days school was closed because of weather would be single digits. Since we moved to Minot in 1983 the bank has been closed 3 days because of weather. Since I live only "blocks" away, I walked to the bank on two of those days to answer the phone to tell people we were not open.cindy.wellman wrote:Kusch,
With all the coldness and snow in the state, what are the guidelines for school closures due to weather conditions?
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Cousin Kenny, who died last year at age 92, had lived in Fairbanks, AK for 50 years. He said the schools usually closed when the temp hit 40 below. Usually.I really do not know what the guidelines are,
Forty below does tend to weed out the riff-raff...
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kusch wrote:I really do not know what the guidelines are, but there are very few school closure days. There are more in the "rural" areas as opposed to the "big cities". Normally when we get snow it is 1-3 inches, sometimes more but not often. If it is more it is usually in March/April. Cold is cold, but that will not close a school. Of course my memory may be wrong but for the total of 14 years my girls attended school I believe the number of days school was closed because of weather would be single digits. Since we moved to Minot in 1983 the bank has been closed 3 days because of weather. Since I live only "blocks" away, I walked to the bank on two of those days to answer the phone to tell people we were not open.cindy.wellman wrote:Kusch,
With all the coldness and snow in the state, what are the guidelines for school closures due to weather conditions?
Idahoans must have thin blood, because Sam says the guidelines here are that it *only* has to be -20 for school to close. Needless to say, school was closed on Tuesday. She also added (just now) that if there is a wind chill factored in, the temperature (with adj for wind chill) has to be -30.
LOL at the riff-raff comment.