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• "In my 24 years in Rapid City this storm, in my recollection, is unprecedented, certainly on behalf of the fire department," Malteverne told the council at Monday's emergency meeting.
• Rapid City set a record for snowfall in October, with a total of 23.1 inches during the storm, according to the National Weather Service. The previous record was 15.1 inches in October 1919. About 55 inches fell in Lead, a two-day record for the month of October.
• Major roads and city and county offices had reopened, but some public schools remained closed Tuesday due to impassable bus routes, power outages and damage to schools.
• Many businesses and homes in the Black Hills suffered damage. The TMone call center in Spearfish has a collapsed roof, the Black Hills Pioneer reported. In Sturgis, an auto detailing shop, a fitness club, a bar and a UPS building have roof damage, according to KOTA-TV. Sturgis Williams Middle School also has significant damage and is shut down for the week.
• The storm contributed to at least one death -- a man in the Lead-Deadwood area who collapsed while cleaning snow from his roof -- and early estimates indicated western South Dakota lost 5 percent of its cattle.
• The storm also toppled hundreds of power poles in the region and cut power to roughly 30,000 customers. An estimated 11,850 remained in the dark late Tuesday -- 7,500 Black Hills Power customers and 4,350 customers of rural electric cooperatives.
• Vance Crocker, Black Hills Power vice president for operations, said he expects 95 percent of the company's customers will have service restored by the end of the week, but outages could last into next week for customers in more remote, hard-to-reach areas.
• Electrical workers, construction crews and National Guard members from eastern South Dakota and nearby states are helping to restore power at six electrical cooperatives in western South Dakota. More than 180 people from 20 South Dakota co-ops, a Minnesota cooperative, a Montana coop, some North Dakota coops, a Nebraska public power district, the Guard and several private contractors were on site or on the way, according to the state Rural Electric Association.

3rd public hearing set for SD raw milk proposal
DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press

• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota agriculture officials are holding a third public hearing in Pierre on Wednesday on proposed rules covering the production,

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