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I used to live in Saguache County as a kid. We left in 2000 but this article does not surprise me. it is hard to adequately get across how desolate it was up there but i&#x27;ll try.<p>We had 40 acres of land and were considered city slickers because 40 acres was enough for 1-2 cows. We were friends with people with 25k acres.<p>The ground was sand. 10 foot down was sand. You could water plants 3 times a day and they would still run out of water. (My mom fixed this with lots of silca gel for her garden.)<p>We lived on a county road and the postal service would not deliver mail closer that 2 miles away. We never did put up a mailbox and instead just had a PO box in Moffat which was about 8 miles of gravel roads away.<p>Annual rainfall is less than the Sahara dessert and temps would hit -40F in the winter. Some days would see 70F difference between day and night.<p>Walmart was 40 miles away (Alamosa in one direction and Salida in the other.)<p>In parts there are no trees for miles. We had ~30 trees by our house. The next ones were at another house 1&#x2F;4 mile away and I believe the next were 2 miles away.<p>Our phone system used an antenna that looked like the old tv arials and was solar with a battery on it. (96&#x2F;97 era.) We had that for about a year before the phone company decided they needed the system more in alaska and would lay phone line for free rather than charging us $6k to run the lines half a mile. Then they waited a year to come get out system. The battery on it would routinely run out in the middle of a call.