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SD Highway Patrol Rescuing Stranded Motorists

SD Highway Patrol Rescuing Stranded Motorists

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Blizzard conditions have led to no travel advisories and closed roads across the state.
South Dakota Highway Patrol Colonel Rick Miller says it’s a bad time for awful weather…..

Miller says they have had to do many rescues to stranded vehicles…..

Miller says they have also had many vehicles stuck on secondary highways…..

Miller says it takes a lot of time, effort and equipment to go out an rescue stranded motorists.
At one point, over seven hundred people were in shelters in Wall.

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