SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Blizzards rolled into parts of Wyoming and South Dakota on Friday, bringing the snow-savvy states to an unseasonably early winter standstill and forcing a tourist town to cancel its annual Octoberfest's polka-dancing bar crawl.
The storm dumped 33 inches of snow in a part of South Dakota's scenic Black Hills near Lead, "and it's still coming down," National Weather Service meteorologist Eric Helgeson said Friday afternoon.