[ SECRET POST #4104 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4104 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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(Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, RuPaul's Drag Race season 10)


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06. [SPOILERS for Shadow Unit]



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07. [SPOILERS for Pacific Rim: Uprising]



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08. [WARNING for rape/non-con]
https://i.imgur.com/n0Letic.jpg
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The part of Wisconsin they were living in is at a comparable latitude to where they were living in South Dakota.* I can't imagine the winters were less harsh in that part of the Plains, although maybe the soil wasn't so good or there were too many trees to clear. That part of Wisconsin is hilly, and that might have been an issue.

*Wisconsin isn't as far north as people tend to think it is, since the Great lakes push the Canadian border well south of the 49th parallel (e.g. Toronto is SOUTH of Minneapolis). See also: those episodes of That 70s Show where the kids drive to Canada to buy beer. That's a really damn long drive through either Minnesota or the UP because Wisconsin does not share a land border with Ontario (or even a border in the lake).

[tabaqui]

I'm slightly confused by your comment, heh. Where they lived in Wisconsin was the 'Big Woods' - basically, Mr. Ingalls spent hours and hours clearing trees and 'grubbing out' sprouts in order to have a field of worthwhile acreage to farm. So it was very difficult, back-breaking work, something he remarked upon often when they moved west and didn't have to clear any trees at all.

The issue re: winters is - while Wisconsin and North Dakota might not be all that different latitude-ally, there is practically nothing between huge, arctic storm masses in ND, while in Wisconsin, you have that...huge forest (or did) that made things not quite as bad. Blizzards that piled snow as high as the roof and made it impossible to see more than a few inches just didn't happen in Wisconsin, or at least - didn't happen for seven months straight as they did in Silver Lake.

And then - the plains are actually fairly dry, with not a lot of water on the surface. Some rainy years had made homesteaders think it would be fine, but they moved out there and planted crops that needed much more water than they would actually get, and didn't realize how dry it was regularly until they'd pretty much lost everything.

[(Anonymous)]

The issue re: winters is - while Wisconsin and North Dakota might not be all that different latitude-ally, there is practically nothing between huge, arctic storm masses in ND, while in Wisconsin, you have that...huge forest (or did) that made things not quite as bad.

Also, Wisconsin is closer to the Great Lakes, and large bodies of water have a significant moderating effect on temperature swings. The further inland you go, the more extreme temperatures you get (as a general rule).

[tabaqui]

Yup. All in all, living in ND at that time was hard as hell.