Day Nine   ----

We look outside and it is dark at nine in the evening.  It seems that is should be light for a couple more hours.  But I guess this is Montana and not Fairbanks.  More specifically this is Wolf Point, MT.  We are about 70 miles from North Dakota and about 50 miles from Canada.

Some things are starting to look "normal" to us   ---   sunflowers

 and wheat harvests.

The point of interest we visited today was Fort Peck Dam.  It was built with "New Deal" monies during the presidency of FDR, partly to help with unemployment.  This is a satellite picture of the water behind the dam.  It stretches 134 miles up stream and has a total of around 1600 miles of shoreline.  By comparison, California's total shoreline is about 800 miles.

Building the dam required the equivalent of 12,000,000 dump truck loads of dirt and cement.  Depending how full the dam is, the  water covers around 245,000 acres, which is about a third of the area of Rhode Island.  The generators in the dam produce an average one billion kilowatt-hours of energy per year.

Here are some pictures around the dam.  These are the generator towers.

 This shows some of the electrical works at the dam.

 Water behind the dam, though it is hard to tell the distance here.  At this point it was maybe five miles across the water to the far side.

Thank you very much.

Elva and Larry