Halverson, who represents the Pass Creek District on the Pine Ridge Reservation, described their harrowing situation to the Journal on Thursday. Halverson didn’t get dug out of her house until eight days after the storm. “It seems like every time we open the road, the snow just drifts it back over,” she said. Cold like that is deadly, just another blow to a reservation already crippled by conditions, Halverson said. “I’ve seen across the reservation some members were burning clothes in their wood stove because they couldn’t get access to wood,” Halverson said.

Source: Daily Sun December 23, 2022 16:16 UTC