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Brandon Cates, a technician with Waterbury Heating and Cooling.
• Annete Amdahl, of Sioux Falls, said she wasn't going to take any chances with her furnace after the temperature in her home fell several degrees. She called for help.
• "Frozen pipes and burst pipes are probably one of my main concerns, but I also have two animals that are in here all day. I'd hate to come home and something bad happened to them if it got too cold," Amdahl said.
• One Rapid City worker found an odd place to warm up from the chill. Jason DeVries, who delivers beer throughout the Black Hills for Eagle Sales, said he normally hustles in and out of walk-in coolers.
• "When I walk into the beer cooler today, I actually warm up a little bit," DeVries told the Rapid City Journal Friday. "That's how you know it's cold."
• Several events scheduled in South Dakota over the weekend were either cancelled or postponed. The annual Custer Christmas parade scheduled for Saturday was called off over concerns for the safety of the participants and spectators.
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SD delegation seeks to head off Corps water plan
HENRY C. JACKSON, Associated Press
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- South Dakota's congressional delegation is pressing House and Senate negotiators to keep a provision in a massive water projects bill that would prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from charging some state residents for use of water.
• The House and Senate have both passed large water projects bills this year. The two bills are now the subject of House-Senate negotiations to merge them.
• The Senate's version includes a provision pushed by South Dakota's delegation that would prevent the Corps from restricting access to water in the Missouri River and stop the Corps from charging people who use water in Missouri River reservoirs in South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana, as it has proposed.
• Sen. John Thune led the effort to get the provision in the Senate bill and called the Corps' proposal a power grab. He said he is pressing negotiators on the committee dealing with the water projects bill to keep the provision in the final bill.
• "We argue they don't have the authority to do that," Thune said. "We're doing everything we can to keep it in the conference bill."
• Rep. Kristi Noem, who is also pressing House and Senate negotiators to keep the provision in a compromise bill, said the Corps' proposal would punish residents who worked with the Corps in good faith when it flooded land along the Missouri River in the past and built new flood protections.
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