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I'm just curious to know how many people even knew about this. 10,000 people lost power and water on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Over 6,000 power poles snapped off. This is the second(?) poorest county in our nation, and there was a lot of suffering associated with this.

My daughter and son in law live in the largest town on the rez, (some of you met Sinawitatanka and family at the Beach Bar last spring.) She and many others endured 10 days with no power and about 5 with no water. Although a lot of people there live in homes without running water all the time.

My question is, was this even on the news all across the country? I don't watch TV news or read the paper, so I don't know if it was reported in the Chicago area.

Boy, I sure don't remember seeing anything!

HOpe things are back to normal and they are doing OK!

it made the Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... st_Popular

Not a single thing on the news here that I have seen. I also watch alot of cable news and have no recollection of hearing anything. I hope they are all doing well.

I saw that Wall Street Journal article during the crisis, and got so pissed off at some of the ignorant comments that I signed up just so that I could reply to them.

Thanks for asking. My daughter and her husband were not comfortable, but they were able to put their food out in the snow to preserve it, and they were among the lucky few who had enough money to go out of town to buy a generator and gasoline.

That way they could fire up the furnace once in a while. Temps were in the single digits there, but they managed to keep their pipes from freezing.

Walmart sent a truck with emergency supplies, and near the end of the crisis so did a few other contributors.