Standing Rock storm problems

Bismarck Tribune

Tribune staff and wire reports | Posted: Monday, January 25, 2010 11:15 am | (0) Comments

Cannon Ball was evacuated Sunday because of storm-related problems and residents taken primarily to Prairie Knights Casino and Lodge.

The casino’s 96 rooms are full of evacuees until power is restored. Bullhead, S.D., is being evacuated this morning.

Some Bullhead evacuees will go to Standing Rock Public High School, which already has about 30 people who came  over the weekend.

Standing rock school plans to send a bus behind snow plows in order to get people out of Bullhead.

The reservation is having an emergency meeting this afternoon.

More than 2,500 people were without electricity in North Dakota today morning, and about 7,800 were without power in South Dakota. In northeast Nebraska, about 250 people remained without power.

No travel was advised in all of North Dakota and Interstate 29 was closed between Grand Forks and the Canadian border.

The University of North Dakota in Grand Forks was closed for the day with the exception of an energy research center on campus. North Dakota State University in Fargo shut down mid-morning.