just on the way on housing and stuff like this. is my first ever. get worse. and that's the biggest. jerry cannot survive very long winter temperatures sometimes drop of the minus twenty. for the time being nothing is ready everything has happened so quickly it's very hard to find a place to. make shift housing known as man camps mind up by the hundreds on the edge of town or close to drilling sites. these dormitory towns built by necessity an empty lots of free speech week one hundred and one hundred fifty dollars a night two meals included. by two thousand and twelve the population living in these men camps was estimated to be over ten thousand gods from and now to florida

nevada. cleveland you name it i've seen the license plate. every week you know this is the best thing for single men you know i mean that's what i mean it's wages and it's up to the everything you know the whole country should be this way. because. this place will put like a stress on you know put away that you'll be carrying around on you and you're really realizing and when i went home i came back i noticed that weight pressure whatever you want to call it it builds up over time for me and. you you wouldn't come up here and there's some reason for you to come up here you know nobody was.

being up here in two thousand and two thousand and one i was moving up here in two thousand and one or two thousand and two it wasn't until ok i can gain something financially i can i can improve my situation i can better my status my situation or on the level that i met in life now and that's that's what they're all filled up here really brought to a lot of people who were smart about it and save their money. because i'm telling you man i was asking a lot of pressure. there's not much help here to do to keep you busy focused on something else you know you know keep your time occupied you know is really allowed me to save all of my money and i'm in a position where you know i can go back home and your house. i just like the sound of it back and go back home about your house pay cash for a house not a car not a car but

a house. all around with just in the lease it's footprints on the landscape the fast as it please your coverage for good by these forces for as far as the eye can see slowly to extract the black calls from the subterranean temps. he became urgent to build surely and highways all around town in order to accommodate the lines of trucks transporting all kinds of pipes beeves sand and water used to track it. nothing was planted in advance everything was done in a hurry because of the immediacy of the work and the enormous influx of workers investors and the unemployed rushed in chasing neutrino after pieces of. german gun austrian gun italian american and my rifles just in case i need to kill

someone. most americans have guns in their house. and at the foot of my bed is a bible. most of my adult life is spent in universities doing teaching or research i went to the university of maine and got several degrees there in agricultural engineering information systems then i worked for mit on the human genome project. there came a time when there was a recession there was high unemployment i spent a lot of time reading the news on the internet and i kept reading about the williston the oil boom the bokken shale. i wasn't doing anything i was going into debt so i decided to go from an area that had almost ten percent unemployment to an area that had less than one percent unemployment. i came looking for work but i didn't know what kind of work to take. so i fell into wireline it was very

difficult at the beginning i had. accidents while pulling a trailer i could have been killed there were explosives in the trailer and it's fun three hundred sixty degrees and the explosives came out the back. but my boss didn't fire me they gave me another chance after the first year i was very pliable i had a marketable skill. it pleases me that i had a hand a small hand but nevertheless i changed my career late in life and involved myself in american energy independence. and in weaning this country of our foreign oil dependency. america would sell its own mother for energy.

i live in st george utah. my family's down there i needed to come up here to make some money to pay off debt and stuff were get in there. i went to school and became an teach school elementary school i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year and drove a truck so i chose to drive truck. i were usually twelve to fourteen hours to get my truck around eight o'clock in the morning and i were till eight o'clock at night you know somewhere between me and i . it's mentally.

not only my. physically fatigued. but it's mental fatigue. this is the moment that i like the best. reached down enough to be everything stops vibrating all the noise goes away it's the. i live in company housing here it's provided by the company i have the share. thirty five foot r.v. trailer with a three hundred fifty pound guy. who

goes to pay for it and no i do not. go proves nielson friends are.

something happens in this case it was a chemical attack on civilians in syria and then the public and the media are waiting for the response i think it's very clear now that if president trump said that there is going to be a response then it will be i just think that our expectations in

a way that this american response will be so severe that it will be a game changer i think this is not the case it will again be misadjusted and very careful calculation by the americans not to deteriorate into a clash a direct confrontation with russia. run around trying to find a job and work here or there and it's not a good life. my children have had some some problems so i spent a lot of money in my children and cumulated debt so. the original plan was to come up here for six months. and get out of debt but as i came up i made money paid off some bills there were other things.

i happy birthday celestial. six six stitches yes. well i'm glad you're feeling better celestial i mean. i love you too and talk to you in the morning. or any of you. are usually parked the truck come back to the trailer here it a frozen meal. throw in microwave sit down and eat it and. if we're not too tired. my roommate nial have a bowl of ice cream and and watch part of a d.v.d. a little after. but most of time it and go to sleep

i don't take a shower every night because we don't have a shower well there's a shower in the trailer but there's no running water. and we don't feel she. just has not solely attracted oil workers. it was an opportunity for people like jeff and constance to change their lives to open a small business. and before i moved to boston i was in the health care industry and then a hospital administrator for several years in kansas. my project was going to live and i wanted to be with my family first and i remember talking to some people was talking about wilson and about north dakota and this oil boom there's a lot of oil out here and there's a lot of jobs in the water of opportunity for business willesden seemed to have the

best opportunities for us and my family and so we drove up to the local and we realized immediately there was a huge opportunity out here so many people out here there must have been at least thirty thousand people going through here and there were only five restaurants at the time and then we looked a little bit closer and said ok what skill sets do we have that would be a good system and we thought that maybe you don't shop for so many other businesses have done here and the old timers they all think that foreigners coming here to take their money and then go back home they don't think we're like that and i think that's one of the reasons with that since it's not just. a business for us we are part of the community if we were embraced by the community they supported us they definitely did to help the south. we are current of it and we always contributed.

to. be a good kid a. lot of kids are going to be really excited to have know it's. we came here they didn't have a donut shop they hadn't had one for over. eight years most of these kids never had a girlfriend till four and. they come into my shop all this i still thought was wow go go it's. there are more families there are coming in to wait list and now i go pick up the land and school and i see other kids you know on the evening kids african hispanic you know it's a good sign the the community is growing. house the way you know.

crack lives in bozeman montana a small town six hundred miles away. has run out of options in his hometown and has decided to settle for willis and he knows he will not see his wife into cheers for several weeks. behind the wheel with the hope that he will find work when he arrives when i leave my family like this i usually feel you know pretty lousy at times there was one incident years ago where my daughter was just in tears as i was leaving and it's like it's hard it's it's not fun it's hard but it's what has to be done. they're getting better at it they're getting used to it i'm getting used to it but i still like a brother be home. training is the way it is usually go get me anywhere from about four weeks.