Four people died. An estimated 75,000 cattle were killed. Records were broken. Sounds like an environmental disaster.
And it was only a few days ago. You didn’t hear?
One would think the death of 75,000 cows by upwards of five feet of snow might get some national attention, but as one blogger observed, it has taken some time for the news of the precipitation massacre to reach outside of local media.
“I searched the national news for more information. Nothing. Not a single report on any of major news sources that I found. Not CNN, not the NY Times, not MSNBC,” Dawn Wink wrote Tuesday. “I thought, ‘Well, it is early and the state remains without power and encased in snow, perhaps tomorrow.’ So I checked again the next day. Nothing. It has now been four days and no national news coverage.”
Wink dubbed it “The Blizzard that Never Was.”
Sounds serious. Five feet of snow in early October.
Was Al Gore anywhere near South Dakota last weekend?
