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And a three-day ice storm last week damaged and downed trees and electrical lines in the Sioux Falls region, cutting power at one point to nearly 100,000 people.
• City Councilman Kenny Anderson Jr., who also is on Xcel Energy's South Dakota Advisory Board, said he thinks it might be time to move the power lines underground.
• "It's a question to see what the cost would be and if they felt it would be worthwhile to do," Anderson told the Argus Leader.
• Xcel supplies power to most people and businesses in Sioux Falls. The utility mobilized workers from across the Midwest to help restore power in areas that were damaged in the ice storm.
• Xcel spokesman Jim Wilcox said burying the system already served by overhead power lines would be costly, though he did not have an exact estimate.
• "I think it easily could cause our rates to have to double," he said. "It would be an extraordinary expense."
• Pierre, S.D., which has a municipal electric utility, decided 35 years ago to convert its overhead electric system to an underground system, utilities director Brad Palmer said. The transition happened section by section, and it took about 10 years to complete.
• "I think it's definitely been a benefit to us," Palmer said.
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Hot Springs man claims $10,000 lottery prize
• HOT SPRINGS, S.D. (AP) -- A Hot Springs man has claimed a $10,000 lottery prize.
• South Dakota lottery officials say Lee Broyles' Mega Millions ticket matched four of five white ball numbers and the Mega Ball in last Friday's drawing to win the game's third prize. The odds of doing so are one in about 689,000.
• Mega Millions is played in 42 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The jackpot sits at $83 million.
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