PIERRE — Snowfighters across South Dakota are in full gear, trying to keep highways, byways and whatever interstate remains open clear for the motoring public. Dean VanDeWiele, Pierre Area Engineer for the South Dakota Department of Transportation says snow plows have the same visibility in a blizzard as everyone else…
Bitter cold temperatures and wind chills are expect with the storm and those conditions and disable plows, taking them out of the mission to clear roads….
VanDeWiele says is hoping to avoid a repeat of winter storms around Christmas last year, which he says were some of the worst he’s ever seen…
The latest road information for South Dakota can be found online at sd511.org.
