Title : Blogging Will Be Delayed -- September 1, 2017
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Blogging Will Be Delayed -- September 1, 2017
Wishing everyone a great weekend.I'm in such a great mood -- seriously -- I'm going to take a break for a few hours. I might blog the daily activity report, but then sit back, reflect a bit on everything, and maybe post later this evening. I don't know. It's been another incredible week.
But I can't resist posting this story, which will probably be re-posted.
My dad was the "president" of the Williams County (Williston) commission when the "original" Lewis and Clark bridge was built. He was on the bridge, giving a speech, when that bridge was opened, for the ribbon cutting ceremony. For some reason, he never thought of inviting his family. Wow. Just one of those things, I suppose.
Regardless, fast forward several decades, and "we" now have a new Lewis and Clark bridge. From The Williston Herald:
Dozens of dignitaries gathered at the south end of the bridge Thursday afternoon for a ribbon cutting to mark the completion of the $80 million project — the largest single infrastructure project in the history of the North Dakota Department of Transportation. Its completion marks the end of six years of construction to make U.S. Highway 85 four lanes from Watford City to Williston.Yes, this is a huge, huge story, that will hardly be a footnote in the book on the Bakken revolution.
Huge story.
More from The Williston Herald:
When the old bridge was built (1973), it handled about 1,000 vehicles a day. Now, though, about 10,000 vehicles a day use the structure. The new bridge can also handle larger trucks because of its wider, 12-foot lanes.Think about that: 1, 000 vehicles / day in 1973. With the Bakken boom, 10,000 vehicles per day.
But now I know why I didn't know much about the "old" bridge. In 1973, I was away from home, in my last year of college.
This is just such an incredible country.
I'm in such a good mood, I would love to take May out for a really extravagant sushi dinner tonight, but, hey, we can't "burn" gasoline -- not much available in the area, although things are already improving.
What a great country.
By the way: I think the Lewis and Clark bridge story is a huge story and yet it was almost buried at the end of Williston Wire. That tells me that so much more is happening in the Bakken. It simply doesn't quit.
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