Posted on 10/07/2013 6:29:58 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A record-breaking storm that dumped 4 feet of snow in parts of western South Dakota left ranchers dealing with heavy losses, in some cases perhaps up to half their herds, as they assess how many of their cattle died during the unseasonably early blizzard.
Meanwhile, utility companies were working to restore power to tens of thousands of people still without electricity Monday after the weekend storm that was part of a powerful weather system that also buried parts of Wyoming and Colorado with snow and produced destructive tornadoes in Nebraska and Iowa. At least four deaths were attributed to the weather, including a South Dakota man who collapsed while cleaning snow off his roof. …
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Welcome.
Can’t tell how many times I’ve done the same thing!
Read a ping to me and gone, “Wait, wut?”
On an aside, 23 Everests post that was in response to is conspicuously missing.
I think cloudmountain was another troll yesterday.
Seems like it.
Yep, zotted, banned or suspended...I wanted to read the idiocy.
That is unusual. The first full winter we were here, the first blizzard was Christmas, the next year we had snow in Oct, but it melted in a couple of days. It also depends on where you are in the state sometimes.
That was my husband’s response as well.
Some of the posts have been restored. Last night it looked like Swiss cheese. Troll problem (23 everest).
Don’t bother with the city dweller who wants us to buy meat at the grocery store so no animals get hurt. Some people just don’t get where food comes from and how hard people have to work so they can have their groceries.
My mother tells this great story about a South Dakota blizzard. The farmhouse had fuel oil furnace but the stoves were electric. One year (around 1955) there was such a huge blizzard that it knocked out power. The house was still warm but they couldn’t cook, nor could the get out the front door. So my grandmother sent my mom and uncle out the UPSTAIRS bedroom window to the porch roof with the camping stove to cook hamburgers.
Fortunately, we didn’t lose too many cattle that year either.
Not you, that was directed to 23 Everest. I pinged you because you had responded to him. I’m sorry if I offended you.
It was in response to 23Everest claim that he ‘weeded out the liberal tree huggers” here on FR.
It’s all good. I just wanted to make sure I didn’t say something stupid, again ;-)
Nah, you’re good. :)
The green plants poking through the snow should tell people how unexpected this storm really was.
I wonder if it was the same person, duplicate accounts.
Just craziness: Better business model; take two weeks off in the winter... weird crap.
My missus said something about someone riding a snowmobile onto a roof and leaving it there.
Don’t recall where she said that happened.
I can see that happening, esp as a practical joke from the hired hands.
My great grandmother got fed up with having to pick up the hired hands (we had 30 at the time) laundry in the bunkhouse when they were supposed to bring it into the house and put their laundry in the basement. Not picking it up didn’t work either. So one day, in the middle of winter, she put just their underwear on the line to freeze - all of their underwear. They quit leaving clothes all over after that.
At our farm, if you misbehaved or showed up Monday morning drunk, the punishment was you had to work for my grandmother for the day - and that was things like clearing out the bunkhouse, painting it inside and out and putting everything back in one day or scrubbing the steps to the basement with a small brush.
Vermillion, S. Dakota not really in the Northeren part. I was glad to get back to Missouri where the temps were a lot more moderate.LOL
Couldn’t handle the weather East River? .:)
We are smack dab in the middle but my Greatx4 grandfather settled Yankton. Were you at USD?
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