Friday, April 12, 2013

April snowstorm 2013: WALDA

Ready for SPRING!
We are ready for Spring, starting to clean up the yard and such (April 6):

Put the "house" back together after winds blew it apart during the winter.

Little did we know that we were in for a big Surprise:  Snowstorm WALDA decided to hit SD on 04-09-13!  Whammo! Back to winter for us:


Terry had finally decided what he wanted for Christmas, so he bought a new gas grill! And assembled it on Monday.   Here it is on Wednesday:

No school Tuesday through Thursday, 12+ inches of snow, sleet, ice etc. here in Madison.  But it wasn't so bad compared to others; Abby and Anthony were out of power for 24 hours in Dell Rapids, and Sioux Falls had a disaster as they started out with freezing rain first that caused many downed power lines, downed trees, and just a big mess in general.

SIOUX FALLS, SD - 
Officials have declared a state of emergency for the city of Sioux Falls.
At a briefing Wednesday morning, Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether said it will take time, maybe even weeks, to recover from this storm.
SIOUX FALLS, SD - 
A total of 80,000 homes and businesses have been affected by power outages this week in South Dakota, Northwest Iowa and Southern Minnesota.


KELOLAND.com



KELOLAND.com
Even the birds tried to find shelter from the storm!


SPRING IN SD!