Written by a hometown poster?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090415/ap_on_re_us/midwest_flooding

"Kathryn is about 17 miles south of the town of Valley City, which is battling record high water on the Sheyenne River."

Until you mentioned that it was 17 miles south of Valley City, I had no clue where it was. For 99.9% of the country doesn't know where Valley City is. Maybe the losers could of said say X miles from Bismarck, Grand Forks, or Fargo that way maybe 5% of the population could figure out where in hell on earth they are talking about.