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Summer is the peak season for one of the nation’s deadliest weather phenomena— lightning. But don’t be fooled, lightning strikes year round. An average of 62 people are killed each year by lightning, hundreds more are injured and damage from lightning strikes in the form of electric damage and fires range into the tens of millions. Awareness, education and preparations can save lives, health and property. While some areas are more prone to strikes than others, lightning can be a danger nearly anywhere.
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The Dream—An increasing number of folks are having the same dream today: get a piece of land isolated from the stress and pollution of civilization, and live a self sufficient lifestyle where who you are and what you do mean more than how much money you have or what your “place” is in the corporate world. Can a family today really do it? More important, can they be happy doing it? You bet! We did. Seven miles up a rocky 4×4 trail, snowed in five months of the year, elk, moose, and bear for neighbors, living only a mile off the Continental Divide in Southwestern Montana. Our son learned to ski and ride a horse before he knew what a tricycle was.

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A yurt is a portable, felt-covered, wood lattice-framed dwelling structure used by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia. The word yurt is originally from the Turkic word meaning “dwelling place” in the sense of “homeland”; the term came to be used in reference to the physical tent-like structures only in other languages. In Russian the structure is called “yurta” (юрта), whence the word came into English.

In Kazakh (and Uyghur) the term for the structure is kiyiz üy (киіз үй, lit. “felt home”). In Kyrgyz the term is boz üý (боз үй), literally “grey house”, because of the colour of the felt. In Turkmen the term is both ak öý and gara öý , literally “white house” and “black house”, depending on its luxury and elegance. In Mongolian it is called a ger (гэр). Afghans call them “Kherga”/”Jirga” or “ooee”. In Pakistan it is also known as gher (گھر). In Hindi, it is called ghar (घर), which means Home.

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