Front Page Story in LA TImes: Minot Flooding -- Residents' Resolve and Resiliance

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In Minot, endurance without complaint— the latter largely regarded here as unseemly and without much utility — is almost a matter of religion.

Planted in the remote North Dakota prairie in 1886 when the builders of the Great Northern Railroad set up their winter encampment, this city of 41,000 has always been a place of taciturn men and capable women.

Out on the farm, a pickup with a dead battery must be started in winds of 60 miles an hour at minus 25 degrees, because there's no one else to take an ailing aunt to the doctor.

People pull together. All but about 200 of those flooded out of their homes have found places to live with families and friends. "It's just part of the fabric of life up here," said SuAnne Drawz, who is hosting three evacuated families at her home on South Hill. "It's just what you do. It's the way we were raised."

Others have noted the same thing: the shelters are not being used except by a very small number.