I spent a winter in Gillette once with a steel erection crew putting up a school. It was uncomfortable going to work in the morning. Especially that portion of the morning spent on my back under a forklift trying to position an old style blow torch on the oil pan.
My son and his family live in Gillette. My daughter lives in RC. Her husband deployed about a week before the snow. I have been in the area a number of times and love it there. DD and SIL were in Alaska for three years. -54 there and some fool on here thinks Chicago is cold.