Snowstorm Strands Tourists, Cuts Power

A heavy storm dumped as much as 4 feet of snow in the mountainous northwest part of the state, leaving hundreds of residents without power and stranding some tourists in Glacier National Park.

Emergency officials in Browning, on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, turned a school gymnasium into a shelter for rural residents who lost electricity and heat.

“The power is still out in a lot of areas [and] there are no phones up in the western edge of the county,” said Gary Racine, sheriff of Glacier County, which encompasses much of the reservation. “It’s a bad situation at the moment.”