North Dakota Insurance

Direction: Some people see in the romantic vision of tumbleweeds rolling along the prairie, but the mayor of Mobridge Darrell Bender sees only horror stories.

Some people may see in the romantic vision of tumbleweeds rolling along the prairie, but the mayor of Mobridge Darrell Bender sees only horror stories.

His city has spent the last week of excavations and $ 8500 less than 30 tons of weeds from the dry prairie.

”We were completely buried homes, roads and streets blocked step,’’said Mayor Bender. ”If I did not see, I would not have thought it could happen. The worst is nothing to prevent that from happening again. All it takes is another strong westerly winds.”

Mobridge is a city of 4180 inhabitants of the eastern shore of the Missouri River in North Dakota near the border. The economy relies on nearly wheat and corn institutions and many cattle feed, and in recent years, a growing number of fishermen and pleasure browser, you can use the river. “As big as cars”

Residents in the south and west of the city edges awakened on the morning of November 8 to find buried houses and roads blocked by thousands of tumbleweeds.

”Some of these things were so big as cars, and they would be closest stacked in a belt of trees, it had a sand dune,’’said John Roth stone, has an insurance agency. ”People have had to take before the tractors and loaders to discover their cars.”

Tumbleweed is the name of a variety of plants, thistles Russian domination in South Dakota. They thrive in bold puffballs lacking in fields and along ditches and fences. In late autumn and spring, it is normal that in a motorway or immobilization of barbed wire, fencing wire.

The tumbleweeds that bombed Mobridge grew up in an unusual size in the fertile river valley land, usually by water from Lake Oahe, a length of 200 miles of sea, stretching from Pierre, SD, Bismarck, ND two The drought years has reduced the level of the sea this summer to 38 metres below the High-Water Mark. It covered a surface of the sea bottom two miles long and nearly a mile away at the gates of Mobridge.

A strong wind from the West gusting to 60 mph schnappte stems tumbleweeds huge and growing in the city. A fire

”If I lifted this morning, I could not see most of my Windows The weeds were so thick and high against my house,’’said Darlene tooth. ”I could not move once my door to my little dog, they were, they in place.”

Madam President of the City Finance Officer, has asked the Division Street for help. One way workers evacuated, but not before she gave him a concern.

”When I called, they said, what you under any circumstances, start your car,’’said tooth. ”I’m afraid. The idea of a fire, with all the things around packaged was really embarrassing. There is no solution, I’ve never received this House, myself.”

Fire was mayor of Bender’s the biggest worry for the Commission.

Si”tumbleweeds are packed tightly that almost explode if ignited,”he said. ”We had a dangerous situation, and we were happy to do it without injuries.”

City workers pull weeds off of buildings and houses, and Mr. Bender rented a farmer, a four-wheel tractor grinding plants. The gravel was windrows time, and another farmer has a son of press and made the windrows. # 30 tonnes of Tumbleweed”Wir, 60 bullets,’’said Bender. I number”of 1200 pounds to 1000 pounds per Bale, or at least 60000 pounds of Tumbleweed. It is 30 tons of weeds. We used the premises of the snow to manage money.”

If weeds are growing along the river are removed anyway, the city could once again be buried, “said Bender.

”The answer is vast, of course, a better level of water in the river to cover the problem,’’said the mayor of Bender. ”This is not likely unless we received more rain and snow. At the same time, we are a target for the next westerly winds, which blow in