EMILY GUERIN:

I have spent two years reporting on the Bakken oil field in North Dakota. I have seen it when it was booming, back in 2014, and now, when it's busting.

There's one highway in the oil field town of Dickinson, Highway 22, where you can see the entire boom and bust story. So we're going on a road trip through Oil Bust Alley to see what we can learn in this five-mile stretch of road about how a community changes when the price of oil crashes.

Let's start with the obvious losers: businesses directly involved in the drilling and production of oil.

So, I'm standing in front a field of stacked drilling rigs. There's about 27 back there. We just counted. And that's actually about the same amount that are actively drilling for oil in North Dakota. Two years ago, when the price of oil was high, there were over 180. And it's really a sign of how much things have slowed down here in the oil field.

Every time a drilling rig gets idled, about 120 people lose their jobs, people like Kaley Haugen's husband, who worked on a drilling rig for over a decade before being laid off last year. Haugen has also seen a huge impact of the slowdown on her business, the Uniform Unit, which is right on Highway 22.