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hours. The power outage in Isabel resulted in extensive water pipe breaks at the Isabel School. Willow Lake was without power for over 2 days. Some homes across the area were also without heat for several days in the bitter cold. The majority of ranchers were running out of or were unable to access feed for cattle, sheep, and hogs. As a result of the extreme conditions and lack of food, over fifty thousand livestock died. In addition, many livestock suffered frostbite and were significantly weakened. There was also a lot of wildlife and pheasants killed. As a result, the Emergency Feed Grain Donation Program was activated for the ranchers. One rancher said that he had been ranching in this area for 34 years and had never lost cattle before. Also, some dairy farmers had to dump their milk because trucks could not get them in time.
• Some people were trapped in their homes up to several days as snowdrifts buried their homes and blocked the roads with some people having to crawl out their windows. In Wilmot, a 12 foot drift covered the community home, where residents had to turn the lights on during the day. As a result of snow removal budget depletions and other storm damages, President Clinton declared all of the counties a disaster area. Snowplows from Iowa, Nebraska, and plows and manpower from the South Dakota National Guard helped to break through hundreds of roads. The snowdrifts in some places were packed so hard and were measured at 300 pounds per sqare inch. Some long time residents said this has been the worst winter they had seen in their lifetimes. The total damage estimate for this January blizzard and for the previous January winter storm is 50 million dollars. This includes the added snow removal costs, livestock losses, building damages, and other economic losses.

1954: Appropriately-named Northice, Greenland recorded the Western Hemisphere's coldest temperature of 87 degrees below zero.

1963: Huge swells broke on a bar near Lagoa do Santos Andres, Portugal. An enormous wave surged into the lagoon carrying 80 people into the ocean drowning 17.

1997: A snowstorm caused the wings of Comair Flight 3272 to ice over. The plane, heading from Cincinnati to Detroit, crashed near Ida, MI and all 29 people aboard died.
2011: Heavy snow spread across Dixie, dumping up to a foot of snow from northern Mississippi to South Carolina. Atlanta was brought to a standstill by 5 inches of snow plus a coating of ice.