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29. I just downloaded the 97 mb version.

Thu Dec 6, 2012, 09:05 AM

Dec 2012

And then overlaid a map of the US. I think you're right, it is the oil fields up there.

I was in Bismark last year and talked to people that said the Williston area is a industrial town now 24 hours a day.

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