I remain fascinated by Governor Dennis Daugaard's decision to close I-29 and turn Exit 4 into a levee to divert flood water from the Big Sioux River into McCook Lake. While the action proved unnecessary—the Big Sioux crested earlier and…
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However big the levee was that the state built under the Exit 4 overpass on Interstate 29, it has quickly disappeared. Here's a photo from about half an hour ago, sent to me by another correspondent on the ground in…
Some mighty emergency civil engineering will not be tested. Governor Dennis Daugaard announces that the Big Sioux River crested this morning at North Sioux City, earlier and lower than expected. KETV meteorologist Kyle Gravlin posts this chart of the river's…
I sit safe and dry behind a computer well removed from the second hundred-year-flood to hit the Big Sioux–Missouri confluence in three years. From my safe perch, the most telling sign that this flood is serious is a single drastic…
Joel Ebert of the Pierre Capital Journal maps itemized campaign contributions to South Dakota's U.S. Senate candidates. The map only includes data from the 2013 year-end filing, but it's still a fun click. Ebert also lists the top ten South…
In a sign that someone was drinking too much beer (or not enough Crow Peak Beer), Nerd Wallet lists the ten best towns in South Dakota to for young families and ranks Spearfish only ninth... behind North Sioux City: 4.…