Monday, September 17, 2012

Rambling around eastern Montana and western NDThe

The past...

The lunch...

Relics...

Oilers and farmers share the road, not without tension.

Flood irrigation...

A few bales...

The Oil Rush moves into every spot it can.  Housing have sky rocketed, pushing low income renters out of town.

I'm pretty sure the transient population above really changed the dynamic in this little town which consists of the old elevator and these few houses.

And, everywhere, evidence of the oil wells.

We heard that it takes 2000 trips by semis to get a well going.  With a quarter of the projected 40,000 wells drilled, it's not surprising we saw huge traffic issues, crowded towns, and paved highways grooved as much as 5 inches deep from the heavy truck use.

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