South Dakota
S. Dakota tribes seek disaster declaration in storm recovery
A South Dakota state snow plow clears a shoulder alongside Freeway 50 on the north fringe of Yankton, S.D., on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022, as mild snow swept by sturdy winds lowered visibility to a quarter-mile at occasions. Yankton is about 200 miles east of the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, which was battered by a mid-December snowstorm that left roads impassable. A 12-year-old asthmatic boy was amongst six individuals who died on the reservation in the course of the storm. The tribe says all the deaths might have been prevented had been it not for systemic failures and an absence of well timed assist.