Blast from the past: Omaha District supports emergency response in Blizzard of 1949
An Army bulldozer clearing snow from a road near Pierre, South Dakota following the Blizzard of 1949. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers led Operation Snowbound alongside the Army and Air Force to clear more than 115,000 miles of roads, reconnect nearly 244,000 people and deliver food and hay to 3.5 million animals (Photo courtesy of the State Archives of the South Dakota State Historical Society)