storms – Dustin Monke

0109 Stuck Car — A group of men, including a Dickinson Fire Department employee, helps push a stuck car that skidded into a drift on the northbound side of Highway 22 on Thursday afternoon.

Snow. Blow. Scrape. Repeat.

The snow removal business in Dickinson has been busy this week, Dickinson’s street maintenance manager Brent Coulter said — and crews didn’t get any relief Thursday as high winds sent snow drifting across city streets throughout the day.

“We’ve had every piece of equipment and every operator available moving snow,” Coulter said Thursday afternoon, adding the city has two contractors assisting in the cleaning efforts.

Often, he said, crews would clean a street and head to the next sketchy spot, only to get calls saying the area they had just cleared was blowing shut again.

“The wind is killing us right now,” Coulter said. Continue reading “Blowing snow keeps street crews busy”

One of the more shocking scenes in the aftermath of Monday evening’s storm in Dunn County was the damage to Weydahl Field, commonly known as the Dunn County Airport on the north side of Killdeer.

The airport, which has seen a surge in usage because of oil activity in the area and was in the process of being improved, suffered a huge setback Monday when winds that reached up to 85 mph, overturning airplanes and completely destroying the hangar, leaving only the terminal intact.

“I think it’s a real tragedy because the people that own those airplanes have helped tremendously in the effort to help rebuild the hangar and the whole airport in general,” said Mike Schollmeyer, the vice chairman of the Dunn County Airport Authority. “It’s a lot of hard work that just got blown away. I feel really bad for everybody that’s put so much time in up there.”

Continue reading “Dunn County Airport hangar destroyed, planes overturned”