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Winter Storm Atlas causes fatal wreck, knocks out power Spike Jordan Managing Editor Ashley Swanson News Editor
CSC, region can't shrug
ATLAS Photo by Ashley Swanson
Blair Brennan, coordinator of physical facilities, plows snow from Chadron Avenue Saturday morning after Winter storm Atlas hit the Nebraska Panhandle Friday.
COMMUNITY CLEAN-UP UNDERWAY CAB and Student Senate is asking volunteers to help with the clean-up of CSC's campus Thursday. Volunteers are asked to meet at the clock tower at 2 p.m.
Oct. 10, 2013
PUBLISHING NOTICE: The Eagle will not publish Oct. 17 due to midterm break.
An early-autumn blizzard hammered the Nebraska panhandle Friday, including the Chadron area, killing three people, downing numerous trees and power lines, leaving hundreds without electricity, and scores of others without telephone and Internet service. Just before 8:15 a.m. Friday, Brandon Clark, 23, of Lincoln, lost control of the Ford Explorer he was driving westbound and veered into the other lane, colliding with a semi headed eastbound, Nebraska State Patrol Captain Mike Gaudreautt, said Tuesday. The collision occurred six miles east of Crawford on highway 20. Clark and passengers, Sandra Clark, 43, of Phillipsburg, Kan., and Patsy Baumgarner, 66, of Lincoln, were killed in the wreck. Semi driver John Ellis, 56, of Edgerton, Minn., was transferred to the Chadron Community Hospital to be treated for minor injuries, Gaudreautt said. No other injuries or deaths were reported as a result of the winter storm. The storm started as slushy rain before dawn Friday. It then turned to freezing rain and snow by about 9 a.m. and continued through Saturday morning, leaving nearly 10 inches of snow in its wake. It forced college officials to cancel nearly all of the homecoming activities and to postpone the homecoming football game from 1:30 p.m. Saturday to noon Sunday. Mark Becker, Nebraska Public Power District's media specialist, said power went out about 2:14 p.m. Friday. NPPD crew members were working to restore power, but as of 3 p.m. Saturday numerous customers were still without power. He could not state when it would be fully restored. “It depends on what the situation is,” he said. “If a lot of trees are down then they have to sort through the trees.” As of 9 a.m. Tuesday, Becker said the NPPD has restored all the power it could, however; 36 people are still without power. This is due to the amount of damage to the power source, he said, and the NPPD cannot do anything until those places have an electrician go in and fix the problem. Over the weekend, about 600 people were without power, he said, because once one area had power, another area’s power would shut down. see ATLAS, Page 3
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