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• In Rapid City, about 300,000 cubic yards of brush was turned into about 60,000 cubic yards of chipped debris.
• "If you covered a football field (with the wood chips) about 10 feet tall, I think it would cover about 18 football fields," Public Works Director Terry Wolterstorff said. "It's a substantial amount."
• The storm that hit with surprising intensity on Oct. 10 dumped up to 4 feet of snow in western South Dakota, killing thousands of farm animals, cutting electricity to tens of thousands of people, snarling traffic, and downing or damaging thousands of trees.
• The tree cleanup cost in Rapid City is about $2.5 million. The city hopes to get reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for much of the cost through a presidential disaster declaration issued a month after the storm.
• "That is going to be the next phase and it is going to be a several-month process, obviously," Wolterstorff said. "I would hope that a minimum of 85 percent would come back to us."
• Crews in Sturgis are still working to remove hundreds of storm-damaged tree branches hanging over public streets and sidewalks and creating a hazard. The work there could continue for another two weeks, according to KEVN-TV.
• A FEMA representative recently visited Sturgis and identified more than 700 branches in danger of falling.
• "The damage was really quite widespread around town," city disaster mitigation specialist Dave Smith said. "There's some areas that didn't have the older trees that some of the downtown area has, the original part of town, but everybody all over suffered some type of damage from the storm."
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