What is going on in YOUR backyard?

As we here in the Great Plains and especially the Black Hills recover from truly historic wind storms, information is coming out about what other storms have been flowing across and damaging our regions and States. (See our afterword.)

We have to deal with natural disasters as part of life. Constantly. Despite the climate-change fearmongers, humans have little or no ability to prevent them: we can only prepare for them and respond to them.

When it comes to human-caused, especially government-caused, disasters, it is a different story. Humans could (and should) prevent them. Preparation is often ignored, many times intentionally. And the response is even more difficult and very much subject to limits. Limits that are often imposed by the very government officials who caused the disaster in the first place.

Here is such a disaster:

For the States of the Great Plains, this simple chart describes a manmade disaster of catastrophic proportions.

We do wonder how Montana and Wyoming have both avoided such an influx of refugees.

Especially considering what we see in the top seven States: North and South Dakota, Idaho, Minnesota, Vermont, Arizona, and Nebraska. Vermont and Idaho are very much unknowns, very unlike the rest found in the Northern Plains.

Notice that this is both just a 10-year period and 10 years ago. We fear the numbers from 2016-2025 will be much worse, with Trump 1.0 and Uncle Joe’s regime welcoming millions more refugees.

The actual numbers are very small compared to what States like California or New York got. The Dakotas both have less than a million people. So South Dakota, for example, only took about 5,000 refugees in. But for cities and towns of the size found in South Dakota, that small number has a far, far greater impact than ten times that number being dropped in Texas or Florida. Especially in a State like Minnesota, where it is now revealed that billions of dollars have been provided for aid to refugees and immigrants in general. Provided and stolen.

The impact on society and the economy is heightened by the fact that several of these States already suffer heavily from diverse and fractious ethnic and racial divisions. Not just Minnesota but the Dakotas have large AmerInd populations whose reservation and urban communities are hotbeds for crime, violence, and abuse. And many in the Dakotas (and Montana, to be fair) see that their States have been treated as colonies by Minnesota and the Minnesota Farm Labor Party (a Democrat affiliate) for their entire existence. In addition, these States had previously absorbed millions of immigrants (many refugees) from Europe for decades. Immigrant populations that really were not close to being integrated until the 2nd quarter of the 20th Century.

The intensive and long-term impacts of such high numbers of immigrants and refugees from other countries are heightened by significant numbers of Americans fleeing to some of these places from Woke, “Progressive” States: California, Washington, Wisconsin, and Minnesota itself. Often the worse impacts are not recognized for years.

We do not say that the influx of immigrants and refugees is all bad: many do seek to adopt and integrate with local customs and practices. Many are productive, peaceful, and willing participants in the economy and society of their new homes. It is only some people who refuse to adapt to the societies of these States. (In the same way, windstorms, rain storms, and snowstorms all form an essential role in maintaining and sustaining the climate and ecology.) But even if they were all good people, there can be too much of a good thing. Even a few more really bad actors can make matters much worse very quickly.

We can see this in cities like Sioux Falls, Rapid City, Omaha, Bismarck, and Fargo. And even more in small farming and ranching and tribal communities.

There is synergy – in a negative sense – of the numbers we see. The result is more failing communities, more failing local and State governments, and another cycle of deterioration. As we see in Minnesota.

It did not have to be this way. Many States, over two centuries, welcomed, helped, absorbed and made foreign and internal refugees part of their societies, polities, and economies. We submit this was due to a combination of voluntary action, attitude, and education. Government mandates, though present, were far less burdensome and far less damaging. And the foundational worldview of most of those refugees was much more like that of the communities they joined. (Irish, German, Russian, Scandinavian and more.)

We at TPOL have long thought that the Northern Great Plains and Northern Rockies States were the future of the American ideals and dreams. Even though the three coasts might collapse. But this kind of manmade disaster may not make that possible.

Afternote: (Rapid City, on the east edge of the Black Hills, documented a wind gust of 101 mph early on Thursday the 18th. The Star Valley of Wyoming, the day before, had 144 mph wind gusts the day before. (That is hurricane strength.) Near Cheyenne, Wyoming, it hit 124 mph. The wind on Friday, though not as strong as Thursday, continues to blow semi-tractor-trailers and railcars over in Wyoming and Nebraska. Each semi blowover probably costs at a minimum $100,000. Vital machinery and supplies are delayed or never delivered. So are Christmas presents. Thousands of trees have splintered and blown down, especially in towns and other built-up areas. Some take houses, cars, and trucks with them. Wildfires start and spread. Entire regions: multiple States’ utilities send hundreds of men and machines and repair parts to restore electrical power, out to tens of thousands of homes and businesses, and critical facilities. Most of the TPOL staff wasn’t able to work on Thursday: no power or communications for 12-14 hours. Some places may not get power restored for weeks. This wasn’t a hurricane or massive flood, but still a natural disaster.)

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Source: https://freedombunker.com/2025/12/19/what-is-going-on-in-your-backyard/