Storm Upon Storm for South Dakota
A TOUGH YEAR Seven presidential disaster declarations have been made for South Dakota since January. Above, a tornado in late May near Bowdle.

VIVIAN, S.D. — The storm slammed into this dusty prairie town with the clatter of falling bricks. Hail shattered windows, punched holes in roofs and mangled cars. The clumps of ice were left to melt, but one, an unusual spiked orb the size of a cantaloupe, was preserved in the freezer of an old ranch hand…

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Storm Upon Storm for South Dakota

A TOUGH YEAR Seven presidential disaster declarations have been made for South Dakota since January. Above, a tornado in late May near Bowdle.

VIVIAN, S.D. — The storm slammed into this dusty prairie town with the clatter of falling bricks. Hail shattered windows, punched holes in roofs and mangled cars. The clumps of ice were left to melt, but one, an unusual spiked orb the size of a cantaloupe, was preserved in the freezer of an old ranch hand…

Keep Reading on the New York Times


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