Talk:Rapid City, South Dakota

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[edit] 1972 flood

As a former resident of the city, I remember having heard, I think, theat the flood may have been precipitated by some cloudseeding experiments. I seem to remember having heard it on the local KOTA TV news one night back in the 80s. Can anyone verify if that is true or not? Badbilltucker 15:17, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

The rumor has been around since the flood, but the National Weather Service has consistently denied it. They claim they never had much luck with cloud seeding anyway...

[edit] Restaurants

Does this section really add anything to the article, other than noting the city has a lot of chain restaurants? If anything, I would like to see a list of establishments with local flavor, if any.

[edit] Crime and Controvery

The comments were unsupported and racist. Rapid City has no more rapes statistically than Aurora, CO or even Sioux Falls and less of a rape rate (per 100,000) than Yankton, SD which had 13 rapes in 2005. The hypothesis presented that Rapid had a high rape rate (which it does not) is due to its proximity in west river, SD to Pine Ridge, Rosebud, and Lower Brule to the south and Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Lakota reservations to the north is not even relevant to the person who presented its thesis (that Indians are causing a high rape rate in Rapid) The fact that the individual mentioned "crime" without noting the recent string of murders, some suspected hate crimes, of Lakota homeless men near the Lakota Homes area of Rapid is most interesting. Wolakota