I’ve experienced high plains blizzards and the snow belts of the Tug Hill Plateau...this thing today? Meh.
For some reason they missed the existence of gold in the stream-bed between the two towns ~ or maybe they didn't For whatever reason they walked off and left the place to rot until one day it was discovered by Americans trying to get in out of the wind and snow.
Other large cities up there? Feh!
This particular storm is coming down in a heavily urbanized part of the country so it's newsworthy to those folks. Helena can have a blizzard every day all winter and still no one cares!~