Bakken Bummers

It seems to have been a long "Spring" here on the Bakken. Well, actually Spring never really came - we had Winter then Summer, or so it seemed. Winter brought some great weather though...

The drifts were taller than me! (Not saying much but hey...I am 4'11"!!!!) And the bummer of the long winter isn't only in the FRIGID COLD but has to do with road conditions out here on the bakken. SCARY!!!!

As with everything, there's privileges and with the awesome weather comes the need for some really radical snow boots! YEAH BABY!

But the warm weather hit with a vengeance and the snow had to melt and had to go somewhere and that's where more bummer kicked in...

Cry me a river...that WAS a road! It became a river though with the melt-off!

And then the rain began to fall, and fall, and fall, and caused lots of inconvenient flooding.  (Not as bad as years past, but still inconvenient) This is the back road we normally take to Minot - well, it was a road. The two slews became one and the road, well it became NONE. They have it closed off now - waters haven't receded yet.

We did take advantage of the wonderful weather to go "mudding" on the farm! This is the road leading to the north property. It was a veritable feast of frenzy! Pulling our daughter's (You noticed we took her vehicle not ours...) little SUV this way and that until it finally sucked us in and we were plumb stuck. BUT we were rescued by a caterpillar! lol (Of the LARGE, YELLOW, STEAL...oops I mean STEEL kind!) Long story short...we were stuck, we found a tractor, we got unstuck and skeedaddled out of there! No harm, no foul - right?! Otherwise it truly would have been a huge bakken bummer.)

On of the major casualties of the rain would be the leaky roofs. This apartment building in Tioga seems to have some REAL ISSUES! I'm sure whomever provided the roofing services is long gone now. This is a real bakken bummer!

This storm cell appeared over Stanley one evening. It never developed into a tornado - THANKFULLY!

Well...that's my Bakken Bummer "weather" update! Life here is still amazing. I have some major news coming soon! But until then. Hoping you're all well and that you can keep on trucking, pumping, hauling or whatever it is you do on the bakken!!