Montana governor declares emergency as rare September storm pounds Rockies

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Montana Gov. Steve Bullock declared an emergency Sunday as a rare September snowstorm walloped the Northern Rockies with powerful winds and as much as three feet of snow.

Calling the storm “unprecedented,” Bullock said that strong winds downed power lines that shut down roads, triggered outages and hampered cell phone service.


"In terms of how widespread and strong this storm has been, we still have a lot of data crunching to do, but it appears that this storm could end up being one of, if not the strongest on record" for early fall, said Matthew Jackson, a National Weather Service senior meteorologist.

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