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Wind chills in parts of North Dakota reached minus 70 degrees (minus 56 degrees Celsius), while the heat index in Miami was more than 160 degrees warmer at 92 (33 degrees Celsius). (apnews.com)

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[–] kalkulat 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I lived there for 11 years... don't remember much, except when the blizzard turned the road into a skating rink, and the wind (which you could actually see) pushed me across the highway into a ditch. Every morning for weeks, I had to plow through the snow-drifts every 100 feet of the gravel road to get to that highway.

Oh yeah, and that big buffalo statue, and that world's tallest tower.

But I did get a lot of Sci-fi read during the slow season. Those Minot airmen sentenced to the AFB did leave behind a lot of good SF books.