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Yes we in the Dakotas are used to it. It's normal. The old saying is that MN sucks and MT blows:)
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It will stop for an hour or 2 and then it will blow from the other way.
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I remember about 30 years ago there was a guy speaking in Pierre, SD about calling in cayotes. He said that if it was windy, wait untill it not a windy day. The entire room started laughing.
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I remember about 30 years ago there was a guy speaking in Pierre, SD about calling in cayotes. He said that if it was windy, wait untill it not a windy day. The entire room started laughing. LOL
"I can't be canceled, because, I don't give a fuuck!"
--- Kid Rock 2022
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You'd think that someone would come up with a way to utilize the energy of that wind.
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
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Great place to grow up sailing Hobie Cats! Short sailing season, but often great winds. No salt water to contend with either.
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You'd think that someone would come up with a way to utilize the energy of that wind. Some kind of spinning thingabajig?
"I can't be canceled, because, I don't give a fuuck!"
--- Kid Rock 2022
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Strong winds aren't unusual. Having them like this for a week is a little uncommon.
Neighbors had a fire yesterday in a Milo field north of town. That was a birch to put out. Swirling wind around the trucks was spreading it as fast as we were putting it out. We had units from all over coming to help. Two big discs ended up knocking it down the quickest so we could get it out. Then right after I crawl into bed we get another call of two cars on the interstate that had wrecked, probably due to the wind.
It sucks, but it keeps the riff raff out. Be sure to share your story far and wide for years.
Beware of any old man in a profession where one usually dies young.
Calm seas don't make sailors.
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I am making a run for it this morning.
When the tailgate drops the BS stops.
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I am making a run for it this morning. Good luck
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Yes we in the Dakotas are used to it. It's normal. The old saying is that MN sucks and MT blows:) Can't disagree with you there. 
Camp is where you make it.
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Double-yes.... 
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LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
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Yes we in the Dakotas are used to it. It's normal. The old saying is that MN sucks and MT blows:) I fully agree that MN sucks...
Ex- USN (SS) '66-'69
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LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
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I have a friend that lives near Rapid City. He says the residents of South Dakota have a saying about the wind. "If it ever stops blowing, half of the buildings in S.D. would fall down"
Several years ago, I drove I-90 from central S.D. to Rapid, with about 40 to 60 mph winds from the south. Stopped for gas in Rapid and noticed the vinyl spare tire cover was missing from my cargo trailer. Somebody might have found it in North Dakota. Checked the oil in the pick up, and the under the hood was all kinds of grass.
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Harvesting in this lovely wind the last few days. Empty semi heading north and all I can muster is 60mph out of the ol' detriot....today is just a light 25mph breeze.
It gets old....but I really believe the weather keeps people away....and I'm cool with that.
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My friend wrote a song years ago. 40 below keeps the riff raff out. The wind helps to. Edk
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One year I hunted pheasants in SD with several friends. One day the winds were howling, I would guess 40-50 mph. If a bird got up and got the wind behind him, it was nearly impossible to give it enough lead to bring it down. Challenging day. One time here in so. Idaho, we were duck hunting along a canyon and the wind was blowing just like that. We spotted a duck coming toward us and realized it had lost control. It was tumbling in the air. We watched it for several hundred yards as it approached and until it finally went over us and disappeared, still tumbling. It didn't lose any altitude that we could see. That would have been one dizzy duck after a few miles of that.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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I am making a run for it this morning. How'd that go for ya?
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I'm in eastern wyoming hunting. The last few days with that wind was tough.
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