What if the sky falls down, and all the trees are broken?

What did they do 130 years ago. A storm would take down the forests of the Dakotas, telegraph poles. Were trains sent to the nearest station with a telegraph office whose trees still permitted contact with the world at large? Send poles and wire.

You must have been driving through my end-the flat, eastern part. The west end has the Black Hills- millions of ponderosa pines, but none 4 feet accross.