Some days you just don’t go anywhere unless you give a little extra of yourself.
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To the Editor:
Fantasy – definition: a fanciful mental image or daydream
Is this what some people in rural South Dakota are living? It would appear so. After all, why else would someone living on an acreage on a township road, expect to have all the comforts of say, downtown Chicago.
Like everyone else in Moody County, I am sick of winter. To complain is human nature. But as a realist and taxpayer, I know it’s not always feasible to clean every road on a daily basis during bad weather. I wish it wasn’t so, but until we find a way to control the weather, we are stuck with it. Most of us know that when we decided to live in a rural setting, that some days you just don’t go anywhere unless you give a little extra of yourself.
We are lucky and should be proud of the many people who work to make our lives safe and comfortable.
How about the dozens of utility workers who labor around the clock to make our homes warm and livable?
How about the area snowplow operators (both governmental and private contractors) who for the past two months have battled equipment breakdowns, deadly weather conditions, and drivers who sometimes just don’t think?
How about the many emergency personnel (law, EMTs, fire) that spend sometimes hours in the elements just trying to protect us from not only the weather but sometimes each other?
How about all the good neighbors who pull together in one of the worst winters in a few years?
I say fantasy, no. Thankful, yes. No matter how bad it seems it can always get worse. After all there might be someone in Tahiti who has never seen snow.
Bruce S. Cramer, Colman
