[Magdalen] Windy, waiting Williston

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 4/24/16 7:22 PM, ROGER STOKES wrote:

>
> My GPS indicated numerous roads to either side labelled as xth
> Avenue or Street, often in the hundreds, but frequently there
> was no visible sign of development and many were unpaved - if you
> could discern them at all  This is country ripe for development
> if anybody can get the figures to make it worthwhile.

Oh, there was a push few years ago to make whole rural counties 
regularized so that cops, ambulances, fire trucks, and Fed-Ex could find 
people.  I think it also has to do with GPS making surveyors of 
everybody, (called E-911 addresses, E being "Enhanced" and 911 our 
emergency call number) but it works out on the ground to having 
everything at an address like a city.  +Glenn lived in the same sort of 
rural town as I do, and he had his address juggled around too. My little 
town, even though unincorporated, was platted and street-named, and they 
just ignored our street names and arbitrarily changed them to names of 
birds.  Our land is flat enough that it was pretty easy when it was 
being settled to lay out roads along the grid lines of square miles, 
with a few exceptions for the river, and now our roads are 10 
(invisible)(not even any thought of ever paving them: it'd sure mess up 
a lot of farm land!) "blocks" apart.  It does have its positive points, 
but the system is still a pain in the neck.  I'm guessing that North 
Dakota, with a lot fewer humans per square mile, is going through the 
same (@%$#% process.  Got to have everybody pinned down to the square inch!


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