South Dakota Are Digging Out

[Mark]

Residents of Wyoming and South Dakota were digging out Saturday from a ferocious, record-setting blizzard in which one location – Deadwood, S.D. – had picked up 4 feet of snow as of midday Saturday.

In Rapid City, S.D., the total snowfall of 23.1 inches made it the city’s second-biggest snowstorm on record. At least 80 people in the Rapid City area were trapped overnight in their cars.

A storm of such magnitude happens only once every decade or two on the Plains, National Weather Service meteorologist Steve Trimarchi said.

To the east, the same storm triggered as many as 12 separate tornadoes.

In Nebraska, three deaths were blamed on the snowstorm.
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