Great Bear is already being used as a natural recreation in the summer and winter. There are tons of trails for bikes and hikers, snow shoes or cross country.
Maybe we should make it this way all year long?
Great Bear Ski Valley is tentatively slated to open later than any season in its history.
Originally, the hope was to be open this week. But Mother Nature had other plans.
“It’s out of our control,” said Dan Grider, general manager.
Actually it is NOT. While we can’t control the weather we can certainly control the city’s assets. Every year we dump tons of money into Great Bear for the snow season and each year it is either closed because it is too cold or too warm. Enough with the climate change games. I think we should turn the lodge into a warming house and just open the park up as a natural recreational park with no chair lifts or snow makers. Instead of playing these games each year, let’s use the park when nature allows us to use it and stop throwing millions of dollars at a facility that is used about 30-40 days out of the year.
Yet we have NO money for childcare. Maybe we could convert Great Bear into a child care facility?
I think turning Great Bear into a child care facility is a great idea, but who would bear the costs, the taxpayers?
Great Bear is the first victim of climate change. Taupeville will be the next as the darkish homes down there will be found to retain too much heat.
West Sioux will be one of the clear winners of climate change as the frequency of three tornadoes in one night becomes more common – and we all know their love for mobile homes – which will then help to clean up West Sioux and offer an opportunity over there for new economic development.
Strong winds could become a problem for the Arc of Dreams, however, but as they are eventually fused up against the $20 million dollar bridge, then their tentacles could serve as a work of art depicting the warnings of an approaching cascade.
The Steel District should stand strong against any climate change, but the warmth of the steel will be too much for most requiring most to live beneath the ground and away from any gleaming steel structures.
The Statute of David will sweat. Some will try to bottle it, but given this town’s politics, it will never be a bottled water to take camping.
All in all, climate change will offer mixed results for Sioux Falls. The Christian community here will opine for the once used Jesus plows. The influx of climate change refugees could change our politics, too, making TIFs harder to get and Sip N Cycle seats to be too hot to get on or sit on, while the cool cement walls and cavern capabilities of the Bunker Ramp could finally give it a purpose.
I don’t have kids therefore I refuse to pay for someone else’s crotch goblins getting day care.
But those “crotch goblins” will “someday” grow-up to care for you when you are at a nursing home repeating the same word over and over again….