{"id":143932,"date":"2018-04-30T16:36:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T21:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=143932"},"modified":"2018-05-01T09:04:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T14:04:30","slug":"dirt-storm-blizzard-leads-to-sd-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=143932","title":{"rendered":"Dirt Storm &#8220;Blackouts,&#8221; leads to South Dakota crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"story_content\" class=\"ng-binding\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-143936\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dirtstormblackout-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dirtstormblackout-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dirtstormblackout-233x175.jpg 233w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dirtstormblackout.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>MILLER, S.D. (AP) \u2014 Motorists found driving difficult on a stretch of South Dakota road not because of a blizzard but a &#8220;dirt storm&#8221; instead.According to the South Dakota Highway Patrol, several car crashes happened west of Miller on Sunday when blowing dirt caused zero visibility.The patrol says high winds combined with freshly plowed fields nearby led to &#8220;blackout conditions&#8221; across a 2-mile stretch of road.A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SDHighwayPatrol\/photos\/pcb.1891323330880570\/1891297287549841\/?type=3&amp;theater\">picture<\/a> posted on the patrol&#8217;s Facebook page shows more than a foot of dirt drifting around a car that had crashed into a fence.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.argusleader.com\/story\/weather\/2018\/04\/30\/pictures-show-aftermath-dirt-storm-south-dakota\/565699002\/\">Argus Leader<\/a> says no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILLER, S.D. (AP) \u2014 Motorists found driving difficult on a stretch of South Dakota road not because of a blizzard but a &#8220;dirt storm&#8221; instead.According to the South Dakota Highway Patrol, several car crashes happened west of Miller on Sunday when blowing dirt caused zero visibility.The patrol says high winds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143932"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143986,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143932\/revisions\/143986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}