Every year it snows in South Dakota. We may live in denial during the spring and summer, but it happens.

When the snow falls on the Falls, life in the state does not stop. We all still have to go to work, school, and the liquor store...um I mean go get snacks.

But, for all the responsible people who drive safely in the snow, there are those who either pay no attention to the weather or, even worse, think the snow is the time to get wild.

READ MORE: A Survival Guide For Winter in South Dakota

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Snowfall Chronicles: Winter Road Behavior And Safety Precautions

Take for example the 'The 'Look What I Can Do' Driver.' They don't believe that donuts are a tasty treat. they are an art that can only be practiced when the road is nice and slippery.

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You also gotta look out for 'The Turtle.' You've seen this one. They look like a moving snowdrift. Cruizing down the street with a view slit like a take and their own personal blizzard trailing behind.

Thankfully in Sioux Falls, the City has the premiere snow-clearing team, so we often avoid the worst of snowy driving. But you always gotta be on the lookout for your own safety.

When you tackle the snowy routes around town you tend to run across six types of drivers in the snow.

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The 6 Types of Winter Drivers You Deal With in South Dakota

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ben Kuhns is just some guy on the internet. He is a wannabe writer, and his wife thinks he's funny. He writes for Results-Townsquare Media in Sioux Falls South Dakota.

A Survival Guide For Winter in South Dakota

Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and the rest of the Sioux Empire (AKA southeastern South Dakota) are welcoming thousands of new residents every year.


Many of you new folks will be experiencing your first eastern South Dakota winter. While it doesn't usually get as bad as our Dakota friends up north, I speak from experience when I say it can get a little rough.


So, to help ease you into winter in Sioux Falls and South Dakota here are some winter survival tips:

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LOOK: See how much gasoline cost the year you started driving

To find out more about how has the price of gas changed throughout the years, Stacker ran the numbers on the cost of a gallon of gasoline for each of the last 84 years. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (released in April 2020), we analyzed the average price for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline from 1976 to 2020 along with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for unleaded regular gasoline from 1937 to 1976, including the absolute and inflation-adjusted prices for each year.

Read on to explore the cost of gas over time and rediscover just how much a gallon was when you first started driving.

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