[Magdalen] Windy, waiting Williston

[Marion Thompson]

In Whitevale on a little unpaved street with only seven houses our 
number was 437.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 4/24/2016 9:59 PM, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> 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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