Lights Out Stretch Tests Nebraska Farm Families Resolve
Crews work 12 to 14 hour days to rebuild shattered power lines across southeastern Cheyenne County and southern Deuel County. About 200 farms, roughly 10 percent of Wheat Belt Public Power District customers, remained without electricity for over five days as of noon. A nearby farm, the Wilmer Brauers, briefly benefited from an undamaged north-south line and a neighbor’s snowmobile fueled stove, with power restored by midday Sunday.
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Con Marshall
Cheyenne County
Deuel County
Wheat Belt Public Power District
Brauers
Akron
Colo
Wheat Belt
City of
Sidney
Hamlin Electric
Fort Morgan
Roosevelt Public Power
Mitchell
South Central Public Power of
Nelson
Neb
Chimney Rock Public Power
Bayard
Niobrara Rural Electric Association
Lusk
Wyo
After the storm locals endure lengthy blackout in rural area
A Vermont style storm left many households without power for days. Mrs Brauer recalls sixty two hours of darkness while using a basement butane heater for soup and warmth. The Namuth family survives in a camper with generator supply. Fire, candles, kerosene lamps, and melted snow water fill daily needs as residents share homes and seek fuel.
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Brauers
Brauer
Colorado
Rodney Namuths
Namath
William Raddatz
Fort Collins
Namaths
Grandpa
Grandma
Virgil Disney
South Divide
Disney
Wheat Belt power restoration efforts cut damage estimate
The Wheat Belt system faces a lengthy rebuild after a blizzard, with about 1,200 poles down and 10 percent of customers still affected. Crews from multiple utilities work alongside Wheat Belt linemen to restore service, while officials seek a federal grant to offset costs and reassess total damage near three quarters of a million dollars. Local residents reflect on the outage and the value of electricity, as snowmobiles and misadventures become small anecdotes amid the blackout recovery effort.
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Wheat Belt
Gene Lienemann
Blizzard Disrupts Panhandle Roads and Livestock
Life returns to normal for most residents in the southern Panhandle while frost, drifts, and outages linger. Deuel and Kimball counties report blocked roads and one way traffic as crews widen routes. An eight hour Bureau of Reclamation outage cut power countywide except Kimball. Young livestock suffer stress and calf losses already tallied at a Cheyenne County ranch with about 25 calves dead amid the blizzard.
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Cheyenne
Cae
Panhandle
Deuel County
Kimball County
Roads Department
Kimball
County
Bureau of Reclamation
Cheyenne County
National Guard
Wyoming
Colorado
Big Springs
New York
Tommy) Thompson
Thompson
WIFE chapters plan spreads across Montana Texas
WIFE groups organize in Montana and Texas weeks after Cheyenne County efforts to lift farm prices. Sidney members plan to travel to Spearman Texas on March 25 and Lenin Montana on April dates for organizational meetings. A Washington report will be shared Sunday after a St Patrick's Youth Center carryin in Sidney.
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Montana
Texas
Cheyenne County
Sidney
Spearman
Tex
Lenin
Monton
Washington, D.C
St. Patrick's
Exon seeks $5.2 million in federal disaster aid for Nebraska power damage
Gov. James Exon asks for 5.2 million in federal relief to restore public power facilities crippled by last week's blizzard in 23 Nebraska counties. He expects swift approval, with Carter to rule within days. The tally covers 11 power districts and the Western Nebraska Technical School, led by a 3 million loss for Nebraska Public Power District.
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Lincoln
UPI
James Exon
Nebraska
Exon
Western Nebraska Technical School
Sidney
Nebraska Public Power District
Chimney Rock
Remodeling bids opened for Marathon Building project
Three bids were opened Tuesday for remodeling the Marathon Building in Sidney to meet Western Nebraska Technical College cosmetology program specs. One bid came in below the engineer s estimate of just over 52 000 while the other two were higher. Board action is expected at the March 23 meeting in Scottsbluff.
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Marathon
Sidney
Western Nebraska Technical College
Scottsbluff
Roof ripped off as Telegraph Photo building suffers damage
Telegraph Photo by Jeana Steiku was to shade this summer west Sidney last Friday. The roof was completely ripped off the vast structure, causing a large amount of damage.
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Jeana Steiku
West Sidney
Storm damages WNTC and fairgrounds in blizzard
Western Nebraska Technical College near Sidney reports more than half a million dollars in damage from last week’s blizzard. A main metal building housing the freight car maintenance program lost about half its roof, with extensive roof, window, and door damage across campus. Electrical service is out, hindering training equipment use. The Cheyenne County Fairgrounds grandstand also suffered roof loss and downed power lines as the storm struck. Federal disaster aid is being sought and state officials will assist with loss estimates.
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EXON
York
Ward
Nebraska
Western Nebraska Technical College
Sidney
Gary Green
Green
WNTC
Cheyenne County Fairgrounds
Fairgrounds
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Sunol
Wilmer Brauers
Marv
Filsinger
Weredt i
We Ty
Union Pacific
North Platte
Wilmer Brauer
Mrs. Brauer
Marv Filsinger
Civil Defense
Roy Bauer
Paul Ward
Federal Disaster Assistance Administration
Kansas City
Carter
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