is a time when cattle can survive much better. we are hoping this will not be too much. also fortunately, most of the bigger parts of the snowfall have been up in the black hills where there's not as many cattle. most of the snowfall would have been down the plains area where the cattle are on the 6-10 inch side. we are waiting to hear what the reports are for cattle losses. >> keep us posted on that. we've been talking about tornados tropical storm ana, blizzard conditions all this one weekend across the u.s. what do you make of what we are seeing? is this normal to some degree or random to some degree? >> well the situation with the tropical system this is a bit early for tropical systems to occur. obviously in south dakota we don't worry about tropical systems too much. the concept of having snowfall and severe weather around at the same time is really not that uncommon for us up here.