A late winter blast that roared into the province on Monday afternoon shut down numerous highways as visibility became non-existent. I'm just wondering how I'm going to get gas from here, because the next town over will be, I guess, Virden. She dropped her granddaughter off in Brandon and as she headed back home to Birdtail Sioux First Nation, "the storm came really fast." Ally Gonzalez and Evan Davis, who were travelling from the U.S., became stranded on the side of the road not far from Souris. When word of their plight reached Gonzalez's mother, back in New Jersey, she reached out to a local Facebook community group, Souris Manitoba Talks, pleading for help.

Source: CBC News March 07, 2017 13:18 UTC