It was almost a decade ago, October 4-5, 2013, that Winter Storm Atlas rampaged through the Hills, bringing over three feet of snow to our neck of the woods and taking down enough pine trees and electric poles to leave us stranded without power for nine days. The co-op crews did an amazing job getting us hooked up again, and I will never forget watching those athletic linemen shimmy up the remaining trees to get the lines temporarily strung up on the limbs so we could begin getting our lives back in order.
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Laura Tonkyn has spent 40 years becoming as self-sufficient as possible with her jack-of-all-trades husband, Art, on their eight-acre homestead in the Black Hills of South Dakota. She has written/edited for a number of local/regional papers, including the Rapid City Journal and Faces Magazine. Reach her at laura.tonkyn@gmail.com.
Laura Tonkyn
Tri-State Neighbor Columnist
