rough necks

Crime, rowdiness rise with gas boom
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... -gas-boom/

.".. small towns enjoying a boom in oil and gas drilling are seeing a sharp increase in drunken driving, bar fights and other hell-raising, blamed largely on an influx of young men who find themselves with lots of money in their pockets and nothing to do after they get off work...

...the drilling industry has brought with it a hardworking, hard-drinking, rough-and-tumble element that threatens to overwhelm law enforcement..."

There is a reason they call them rough necks. I had several short term jobs drilling for oil, coal, silver and steam during the first oil crunch. My first job(?) , I was hired while playing black jack in NV before anyone asked my name. We would get kicked out of the casino if we were on a wining streak.

I have hunted in North Dakota a few times with rough necks and they sure now how to party hard.
They work hard and play hard.

Another downside of the oil boom:

WILLISTON, N.D. (CNNMoney) -- Mercy Medical Center, the only hospital in Williston, N.D., had to double the number of seats in its waiting room six weeks ago.

It also had to hire security guards to ensure the safety of incoming patients this year, a precaution that has become necessary: emergency room visits have increased 50% in the last 12 months and wait times now average at least a couple hours.

The explosive growth in the small towns surrounding the Bakken oil formation, has led to a surge in accidents and patients, putting an incredible strain on local medical facilities like Mercy.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/health/ ... etail.html

Conservation Voice wrote: Another downside of the oil boom:

WILLISTON, N.D. (CNNMoney) -- Mercy Medical Center, the only hospital in Williston, N.D., had to double the number of seats in its waiting room six weeks ago.

It also had to hire security guards to ensure the safety of incoming patients this year, a precaution that has become necessary: emergency room visits have increased 50% in the last 12 months and wait times now average at least a couple hours.

The explosive growth in the small towns surrounding the Bakken oil formation, has led to a surge in accidents and patients, putting an incredible strain on local medical facilities like Mercy.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/health/ ... etail.html

This has to be stopped... if we can save the life of just one person... it will be worth it.

Conservation Voice wrote: Another downside of the oil boom:

WILLISTON, N.D. (CNNMoney) -- Mercy Medical Center, the only hospital in Williston, N.D., had to double the number of seats in its waiting room six weeks ago.

It also had to hire security guards to ensure the safety of incoming patients this year, a precaution that has become necessary: emergency room visits have increased 50% in the last 12 months and wait times now average at least a couple hours.

The explosive growth in the small towns surrounding the Bakken oil formation, has led to a surge in accidents and patients, putting an incredible strain on local medical facilities like Mercy.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/health/ ... etail.html

Double edged sword. The oil boom should attract medical professionals to North Dakota which used to have a dangerous lack of primary and emergency care.

It should, but hasn't. As the story states, they have 70 open positions. Medical people don't have a nomadic lifestyle that I'm aware of and don't drift from town to town.

Conservation Voice wrote: It should, but hasn't. As the story states, they have 70 open positions. Medical people don't have a nomadic lifestyle that I'm aware of and don't drift from town to town.

So anyone going to North Dakota is now nomadic?

rofllol rofllol

Established doctors tend not to want to travel, but starting medical professionals tend to go where the jobs are.

"And the caravan of medical professionals crested the ridgeline, nomads in scrubs coasting on their last drops of petrol into the boom town of Williston, North Dakota."

New add, the North Dakota bedouins are looking for a few good doctors.