The only way to know what a 'north dakota winter' is like...is to experience a few...i've lived here since '95 and i still am sick of them, you would think by now i'd be used to driving in just shit conditions, having to wake up early to shovel, etc etc etc...but nope. I had to go to work this morning at 10am so i woke up early cuz i knew it was gonna be pretty bad out, then i looked out my bedroom window and saw this car that had been almost completely drifted over...i shook my head and got ready. As i walked out the back door of my apartment building there was a waist high drift blocking the door...so i put my shoulder into it and pushed until i could squeeze out, i had to climb through that drift than over the snow piled up from them clearing the parking lot..i thought huh well atleast they cleared the parking lot, until i noticed it created a wall of snow in front of the garage doors...fuck..spent a few minutes shoveling that away to where i knew i could get my car out and thru the parking lot, then within the first 20 or so feet out of the parking lot i got stuck, not bad, but enough to worry me, i thought about just trying to get it back in the parking lot and calling in till they plowed the roads...got out of my car looked down the street, thought about it for a second and decided fuck it, i pinned that bastard to the floor and kept as much speed as i could without stopping till i got to work. I cant believe how many people ventured out into a blizzard...to shop for fucking clothes, are you that fucked in the head, come on. And as i was sizing and colorizing racks i noticed a guy in a light leather jacket, a baseball hat...and fucking shorts. The trip back home wasnt as iffy, except for the fact that there was glare ice now, and fresh wet powder on top of it so i had no traction whatsoever. Fucking north dakota weather...