Brrr!

The final story from The Children’s Blizzard is this, after the disastrous blizzard of 1888, settlers gave up on the Dakota’s and new arrivals slowed to just a trickle. The Great Plains were no place to get rich. It was a dangerous place and it still is. Citizens of that region today will tell you never to travel during a blizzard and homes and vehicles need to contain emergency gear at all times. And I really want to visit the Dakotas sometime. I like listening to the natives. All rightey dere den.

We used to know a programmer, a department head, who worked for Great Plains Software. She worked from her Roseville, California home and managed a dozen or so employees around the country. But she would have to go to Fargo, North Dakota every once in awhile for face to face meetings at headquarters and her description of the airport in winter was always funny. Luggage carousels rotating with just one suitcase. Hers. Empty terminals. And never a crowded flight! Despite the fact that there was perhaps just one flight a day.