Summer, which is to say temperatures consistently above 80 degrees in the daytime and tomatoes consistently without frost damage at night, is what makes south-central Idaho livable. Without it, we’d just all best move to North Dakota. In North Dakota (state motto: “Winter can kill you here any time of year”), life runs on spec. Summer may come, or it might not, but Nodaks understand there’s not a darn thing they can do about it. Folks in Fargo spend their Aprils sandbagging the flooding Red River in the midst of a blizzard. In that kind of environment, you can never really count on anything good happening/Steve Crump, Twin Falls Times-News. More here.

Question: Anyone out there ever lived in North Dakota? Care to tell us what that was like?