FREEZING TO DEATH

I worry about the North Dakota protesters. Having grown up in South Dakota, I know how cold it gets in the winter.

I am also emotionally torn by the pipeline. Pipelines spill WAY less oil into the environment than shipping the oil by rail. Companies who fail to get agreement from all stakeholders often fail to admit that they have leaks from pipelines. Some of the oil destined for the pipeline is the dirtiest oil on earth. Just whiffing it once, sent me to the emergency room.

When I read that a veteran from Hawaii was going to protect the protesters, I was reminded of the Laura Ingalls Wilder book, 'The Long Winter'.

It is SO easy to freeze to death. Often, when you are freezing to death, you feel warm, go to sleep, and never wake up.

The prairie can be a very unforgiving place. The blizzard winds can be so strong, they will blow you off the road. Sometimes you can barely see your hand when you hold it up in front of your face.

Blizzards make your world into a white trap. You can not even go from tent to tent without a rope around your waist. I do not know how you go to the toilet without frostbite. When you can no longer feel your fingers, it means you have frostbite and will probably have to have the finger amputated. Frostbite freezes the blood, as the frozen part warms up, the blood does not reanimate, so gangrene sets in, your finger or toe turns black, and has to be cut off or the infection will kill you.

My blizzards were in SOUTH Dakota. NORTH Dakota is even colder and nastier in the winter.

You may be able to fight the pipeline.

You can not fight Mother Nature.

Trump won the election. You have lost this battle. Please stay alive so we can win the political war that is coming.