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the southeastern North Dakota town of Fairmount opened an emergency shelter to accommodate nearly three dozen stranded motorists.
• Fargo Public Works Director Ben Dow told The Forum newspaper that it was the worst snowstorm since a two-day blizzard that led to a major pileup on I-94 west of West Fargo on Dec. 30, 2010. Clearing roads will be a difficult task and they may not clear some until Monday night, he said.
• The University of North Dakota hockey team, returning from a weekend series in Omaha, Neb., became stranded in Sisseton, S.D., when the interstates were shut down. Coach Dave Hakstol told the Grand Forks Herald that he hoped the team could return home sometime Monday.
• The storm broke several weather records in the two states, according to the National Weather Service.
• In South Dakota, Aberdeen had 8.4 inches of snow Sunday, breaking the city's record for the date of 3.4 inches set 65 years ago. Huron had 9 inches, breaking that city's 54-year-old record of 4.9 inches. In North Dakota, Fargo set a record with 9.3 inches of snow Sunday, breaking the city's 60-year-old record of 3.1 inches. Grand Forks had 4.8 inches, breaking its record for the date of 3.1 inches, set 18 years ago.
• Heavy snow caused part of the roof to sag at a business in the North Dakota city of West Fargo. No one was inside Caterpillar Inc. shortly after midnight Sunday when the roof sagged over an area about 300 square feet. Workers on the early Monday shift were told to stay home. The sagging roof broke a sprinkler line but officials said the water damage was not significant.
• Many schools canceled classes or scheduled them to begin late on Monday. Valley City State University in North Dakota and Presentation College in the South Dakota city of Aberdeen closed their campuses Monday. UND in Grand Forks canceled classes before 10 a.m. Monday, and North Dakota State University in Fargo called off classes for the entire day. Many streets in Fargo, the state's largest city, were impassable early Monday.
• The South Dakota Legislature shifted its four-day work week from Monday through Thursday to Tuesday through Friday because of the storm. State government offices were open, but residents with business to conduct were urged to call ahead to make sure the office they planned to visit was staffed.
• The storm did bring much-needed moisture to parts of South Dakota that have been mired in drought.
• "Some of our automated equipment was getting as much as 1 inch of moisture in the snow," National Weather Service Meteorologist Jeff Chapman told The Daily Re

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