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.
Yes. This. Rapid has quite a few new ethnic restaurants, ranging from Indian to Sushi and I think some Indian Tacos.
Which, frankly, wails the trendy pants off of TGI Friday's.
[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
[edit] Major Companies and Institutions
What is the point of this section? Those companies don't really have anything to do with Rapid other than they have a bank there or something like that. Spiesr 17:36, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Ad-tastic
I removed several big chunks from this article because they were advertisements and full of weasel words. This is an encyclopedia, which means it deals with verifiable facts and measureable statistics. Writing about how beautiful the city is, what warm people it has, and it's award-winning health care, is just opinionated crap and has no place in an encyclopedia. Jboyler 16:11, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Businesses and restaurants
I removed the sections listing businesses and restaurants in the city. I haven't seen all that many articles on American cities, but I'm guessing that they don't all have lists of all the fast food chains and banks that lurk within them. If this is common policy, however, feel free to revert, but I can't see how they add to the quality of the article. Phileas 01:57, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Population statistics
Where did the statistics for the estimated 2007 population come from? I didn't see anything about 82,000 people on the Rapid City government website. Not only that, but a 22,000+ population jump in 7 years seems a little unusual for Rapid City. Anybody have a source for that?(planes)
I don't think the article reads like an advertisement. It seems like JBoyler's edit solved that problem, but the tag remains? Any problem with removing that tag? Nasch 20:15, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
The city's website estimates the 2006 population is 67,000, so the 82K number must be wrong.AlexiusHoratius 14:27, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Changed it - I looked it up on the census site, and the 2005 estimate was 62,167, not 82,167. AlexiusHoratius 11:45, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
