[(-D]Thanks, Mookie and Norris–a good laugh after lunch helps the digestion.
That’s cruel. Your ‘ordinary’ likely includes most peoples’ idea of sub-dry-ice temperature. Before wind chill effects…
Polar cold to me is when you feel like the 30-30-30 rule is applicable. A bit like this
We in Tennessee are famed to have a different view of Arctic cold, at least if Bob Service is right.
Yeah, Mookie is always trying to rub it in about the weather in tropical Nebraska.[ip]
Johnny,
You are forgiven. We all can’t be expected to know everything gut the great circle route from Chicago to Salt Lake City does not pass over South Dakota. OTOH, weather may have dictated a small change of course. Even at 30,000 ft thunderstorms are a hazard the airline try their best to avoid in the interest of keeping their passengers reasonably comfortable.
I try my best to avoid the hassle of flying commercial but have flown many thousands of miles with a friend in a single engine Cessna R182. Small planes avoid hazardous weather like the plague.
Your lack of knowledge of your exact location is common.
My impression of SD when we drove across last summer, " A whole lot of nuthin". We took US 14 east between Wall and Pierre- you could literally drive for 15 minutes and not pass another car in either direction. And this was on a Saturday afternoon.
If you ever get the chance to ride the Black Hills Central from Hill City to Keystone it is well worth it.
The ride is very scenic, and they operate a standard gauge 1928-built Baldwin 2-6-6-2T as their main power.
That unit puts on quite a show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lonmaxco77Q
There are some very stiff grades that really make 110 work hard.
In addition, they are restoring No. 108, which is another similar 2-6-6-2T built by Baldwin in 1926.
Well worth the time and the ride.
Ditto Kansas… (sorry Sam!) And the sandhills of Nebraska! (Sorry Mookie)
Hey! There is nothing wrong with South Dakota… What would be there if it weren’t for South Dakota? Seems to me to be a fine state to take up that space! Ditto Nebraska and Kansas!
Why is there North and South Dakota - Not just Dakota?
Three years ago I ran a marathon over the trail that was once the BN roadbed into Deadwood. Can I claim the mileage?
A ride on the Black Hills Central was a good way to recover after the race. That mileage I did claim. South Dakota Railroad Museum was right next door.
Politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Territory
See especially “Dakota Territory and Statehood.”
A couple years back some folks in North Dakota wanted to change the name. They said the name was too long and didn’t do well enough to put the state in a good light. They thought the name should be shortened to ‘Dakota’. Folks south of the border suggested they should just shorten the name to ‘North’.[:-,]
Take a leaf from SF author John Barnes as expressed in ‘Mother of Storms’ and just call them something like Endee and Essdee. (Adjust the phonemic representational spelling to reflect actual local pronunciation of the initialisms…)
Funny you should mention pronunciation. In my area the two are pronounced something like:
Sow-duh co-duh (In one rapid mumble)
Nort! uh-co-duh (With emphasis on nort!)
Cornfield (That state south of us).
Reminds me of my incendiary youth, when the real-estate pirates in Manhattan started working the so-veddy-British “SoHo” to refer to the ex-tenement and sweatshop ridden area ‘south’ of ‘Houston‘ Street.
Now it does not take long to recognize that outside North Carolina few people pronounce the word ‘south’ as ‘soth’ with a long O. Manhattanites also know that Sam Houston was one of them long before he went to the other place, and more particularly we remember and respect the way he pronounced his own name: ‘how-ston’.
I merely pointed out that for truth in advertising we should call it ‘Sow-How’ (with sow of course as in female pig). Still think so, now that I think about it.
Must have been boring. Did you stand on the prairie pretending to be radar, or just acting shy so that satellites would not notice? [:D]
Cpl. (later Sgt.) Walter O’Reilly of Ottumwa, Iowa?
Or Upper Freezistan and Lower Freezistan?
It actually took less than a day to tear each one down and pile it up so the local weather detachment folks could dispose of it through the proper procedures.
The radar was the AN/TPQ-11 ceiling measuring radar. It was a small shelter (5’x10’?) with two dish antennae on top, pointing straight up. I believe they are all long gone by now.
No, I didn’t capitalize it. I was amused by ‘dissembling’.