3 Years Ago Today: Blizzard Took Out Hot 104.7 / 97.3 KKRC Tower A historic blizzard landed in the Sioux Falls area on April 14, 2018. It closed almost everything down for a couple of days. It also took out a couple of our radio stations. The storm lasted for two days. When it was over it had shattered records for snowfall in Sioux Falls. The old record for snow on April 14 was 2.4 inches in 1983, we got 13.7. The single day in April was 10.5 inches in 1994. And the monthly total for April set in 1983 was 18.4 and we got 24.9 in 2018. A few miles north of Humboldt sits an 814-foot tall radio tower that is the transmitting home of Hot 104.7 and 97.3 KKRC. Sometime in the early morning hours of that Saturday, an accumulation of ice combined with heavy winds caused a guy wire to give way and caused the top 200 feet of the tower to break off and fall to the ground. Amazingly, the rest of the tower structure survived the collapse. That doesn't usually happen.