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Traveled a nontypical route for me, US12 from Helena to I94...

Some bitch it is insanely dry! Roundup to Big Porcupine Cr west of Forsyth, no deer, no antelope and NO beef. Nary a tweety bird, nor prairie dog, nor bugs hitting the windshield. Last remaining puddles on the Roundup end had some quackers.

All brown 'cept a few feet on both sides of the highway.


Insane.

That's the report.

yea it sucks....

at least down here in Utah/Arizona we've been getting rain

desert stock ponds are full

more rain & soon snow coming next week...

this pic...desert stock pond F U L L

critters luv it !

Surely you saw road killed deer, or at least red spots thereof. Especially east of Roundtown where the highway parallels the river and they cross twice a day to get to the irrigated ground along the river. No?

I'm right off of 12 around White Sulphur and it's been bone dry since the last snow melted. I was pretty concerned about lighting strikes until the local cattle grazed everything to dirt. Even now, though, you hear crackling as you walk around when usually it's silent. Plenty of wildlife, though.

Hot damn! A jewish lawyer packing a suppressed AR on his walk! Wish all your ethnicity and all who share your occupation were as correct. We’d have a lot of problems whipped, methinks.

The section mentioned appeared new to me. If I had been through there trucking, it'd been in the dark. Generally, Id be north, GF to Miles City or south swinging through Townsend to BigB.

The survey started somewhere east of Roundup. No fresh death observed. Most desolate SOB highway stretch I ever seen somewhere not specifically called a desert. It may not have rained all year? Severe looking. No green weeds even.

Roadkills. A week ago, late Monday morning, the route was Helena to Ennis to Rexburg. No exaggeration, fifteenish fresh bodies. Carnage.
God's Country. Our shared God? Hold on, I'm not sure how that works. 😁 Love that sagebrush country.

When you go to Bozeman, there's a route over west through Sedan. My momma is from there, a once thriving suburb of Wilsal...

Was the foot wear was a damn giveaway?

Holy Schit! Remsen is Jewish? Hell I thought he was polish......

It's been extremely dry since June in the west. In N. Idaho it's more timber country and we had record temps with no rain and fires. Now it's rained and it's cool and you'd have a hard time starting a fire now. We have rain and snow coming.

It could be an elaborate hoax?

Well, he is a lawyer...😉

I resemble that remark.....





...the polish part.

Remsen, I've hunted your neighborhood.
Neat country but no luck, just haven't hit it right.

I live in Glendive it's been DRY since last July 2020.

I am up in Sydney/Fairview. Dry as a bone.

Boatammo, are going to the auction Saturday in glendive?

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God's Country. Our shared God? Hold on, I'm not sure how that works. 😁 Love that sagebrush country.

When you go to Bozeman, there's a route over west through Sedan. My momma is from there, a once thriving suburb of Wilsal...
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I know that area well. I take 86 to my property in spring and summer (I usually go up through Livingston on 89 when there's snow) and Sedan is, I believe, just on the other side of this very nasty 90 degree bend in the road that has a 70 mph sign that seems to be a way to separate out the tourists from the locals.

You and me both. It's like being part of a family where most of the others are criminals or worse, and they ruin your otherwise good name. And then they screw up the country to make matters worse.

Sydney?

😁

My buddy just left here to drive to Glendive to see his folks.