RA>Carol called Friday night, and I was glad to hear from her. Her family
>seems to be riding out the weather fairly well. At one point the wind
>had completely buried both the doors of the house with driven snow, the
>real hard, packed stuff. The only window they could get open also
>happened to be the smallest, so they sent the smallest member of the
>family out the window to shovel the doors clear. Carol was saying she'd
>heard of snow drifts 20 feet deep and half a mile long blocking roads on
>Cheyenne River. They were air dropping emergency supplies to people and
>air lifting kidney patients to hospitals for dialysis.
I'm glad Carol is doing OK. I do think we're going to find a number of
dead come spring. It's been rough out there.
I have friends in south Dakota. They've been doing OK, but it hasn't
been easy for them. I know it's been even rougher in North Dakota.
Sondra
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