Only 4 Homes Insured in North Dakota Area Hit by Tornado

August 4, 2008

  • August 4, 2008 at 3:47 am
    David says:
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    If it’s not too late, they can cancel their subscription to Encyclopedia Brittanica.

  • August 4, 2008 at 4:01 am
    RB says:
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    Joe – the tornado couldn’t have hurt the book. Someone checked it out last year and hadn’t brought it back.

    I just hope the book wasn’t in one of the collapsed homes. It took the library literally years to find a book that had a Red Cross chapter. And a four-person Table of Contents. And an Index of cards. Judging by the librarian, it was the only thing with a spine under that roof.

    But I did hear that the tornado twisted the blacktop pretty bad on the one paved road. Folks have been reported driving in circles until their gas tanks ran dry.

    Luckily, school had been closed for the summer so most of the kids were at home. The four children in summer school were at a disadvantage, though. The chairs from the one-room schooolhouse were scattered over a quarter mile, and the teacher had to yell really loud to be heard by the furthest student.

    The fire department didn’t fare well, unfortunately. Most of the homes destroyed were the two-floor versions, and all the firemen had left was the ladder truck. They had to park 600 feet away from a fire last week just so they could extend the ladder to reach the blaze.

    The sheriff has filed a Disability claim with the county. He claims every time he watches his emergency light rotate, he gets flashbacks. The Board denied the claim, stating that the sheriff shouldn’t be up on top of the car when the light is active anyhow. But apparently that’s where the saddle is.

  • August 4, 2008 at 4:11 am
    SAD says:
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    The article did leave a lot to be desired. Belcourt is the community seat for the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation where the median household income is under $13,000 a year and 54% of the population lives below the poverty line. Is it any wonder so few homes are insured?

  • August 5, 2008 at 7:28 am
    Big Jim says:
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    Instead of belittling the Native American people who were forced on these reservations, we should help the people who live in this forced poverty. We are so quick to deliver calls of help to others throughout the our country and other nations after natural disasters, but how many reports were even heard of this reservation being hit by a catastrophe. Is anyone helping these poor individuals?

  • August 6, 2008 at 1:06 am
    TMRezKid says:
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    I live on the res and we do have a casino. It’s profits, however, go to fund our corrupt and incompetent tribal government. The lack of home insurance, however, comes from a lack of personal responsibility. I’ve been by most of those uninsured homes and most of them have Sat TV dishes. What’s more important, Sat TV or insurance? I’d wager most of the residents of those homes spend money on cigs, booze, and/or gambling, too.

    BTW, despite all the anti-rural bigoted comments here, our children score higher than 46 out of the 50 states–so go suck on that…

  • August 11, 2008 at 2:16 am
    2ndamendmentmomma says:
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    Are they forced to live on the reservation?
    I put up with being treated like Im stupid and have my whole life because Im an attractive Blonde. I dont cry about it. I use it to my advantage. Try it sometime! Get a set.
    suck on that, whiner!



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