We live just 10 miles west of Rapid City, SD. It looks like Armageddon here. We finally got electric power about three hours ago..............but so many do not have power yet. We have 12 foot drifts around our house. Thankfully, we have a snowplow and generator. This is such a heavy, wet snow. On our forty acres, we counted about 700 trees (ponderosa pine) down. Anyone need firewood? I’m a “prepper”, so we have plenty of food and water stored, but so many don’t. We were finally able to make it to town late this afternoon for milk, bread, produce, etc., but the shelfs were nearly bare. The stores are hoping to get supply trucks in sometime tomorrow. We were able to help some of our neighbors with essential groceries.
This was a “wake up” call for every one to “prep”.
I miss Rapid City. Was stationed for 3 years at Ellsworth.
My favorite place in the world was Randy’s Pizza Barrel.
Prayers up for the ranchers.
Preppers’ PING!!
Stay safe. My mother is far enough west she didn’t get snow but the wind blew some trees down in town including one right outside her house - she was lucky it didn’t blow into her roof.
I think the rural folk are better prepped than those in Rapid though. Everyone where my mom lives is a prepper - just part of living in rural SD.
Oh wow! Those are drifts we use to have here in Pa over wild winters....
This sounds pretty bad for the folks there....and to think if it took down 700 pine trees it’s gotta be really heavy!
Lord God..Be with these people as they struggle to get things up and running. And keep those in the back hills etc. safe until someone gets to them.
In Jesus name...Amen...
Sorry to hear about your trees. We had minimal damage, thanks to only getting less than 12”; and the wind kept knocking a lot of the snow out of our trees before it had a chance to build up too heavily. Hot Springs itself wasn’t as lucky.