Reservations brace for winter storms amid slow recovery
(WorldNews Business)

PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) - Snow blanketed the living room of Erna Shepard´s home the morning after a storm on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. `I´m going to freeze,` she said. It´s been 10 months since the `bomb cyclone` that dumped the snow and rain that Shepard, 48, says caused the roof of her mobile home to cave in. While she´s managed to find a temporary home with her sister, like many people living in several Native American communities in South Dakota, she has struggled to recover from a storm and flooding that swelled rivers, swallowed roads and stranded thousands of people. `The harsh thing about these climate-related events is that when they happen to these communities, we don´t...