Quick! Is Pope Albert I of the Church of AGW visiting the Dakotas?

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Blizzards rolled into parts of Wyoming and South Dakota on Friday, bringing the snow-savvy states to an unseasonably early wintery standstill by closing highways and schools, and even forcing a tourist town to cancel its annual Octoberfest’s polka-dancing bar crawl.

Oh noes! Not Octoberfest’s polka-dancing bar crawl! Oh, the humanity!

A foot of snow had fallen in western South Dakota’s scenic Black Hills by early Friday, though residents were bracing for as much as 3 feet of the wet, heavy snow and wind gusts of up to 70 mph. The storm system spawned a tornado the night before in Nebraska and was threatening to push thunderstorms as far east as Wisconsin.

But…but…but…I thought the planet was getting warmer. What’s this with blizzards hitting the Upper Midwest in October.

Julie Lee said she and fellow members of her White Rose Band are accustomed to snow, just “not for the fourth of October.” They had barely unloaded their instruments in South Dakota’s Old West casino town of Deadwood before snow started falling and closed the area’s only interstate.

“Our car is like an igloo,” said Lee, who sings and plays the clarinet and saxophone for her North Dakota-based polka band. “I’m glad we got everything out.”

Wow! It’s a good thing we’re going through global warming climate change or you would have really been boned by about thirty feet of snow.

Town officials decided to postpone its annual Octoberfest, including Friday night’s dancing-and-singing pub crawl and Saturday’s Wiener Dog Races and Beer Barrel Games. But Lee and her accordion-playing husband, who had planned to set up in one of the casino bars, still planned to entertain stranded guests. “You can only gamble for so long,” she said.

The typically bustling Pilot Travel Center near Rapid City, about 40 miles southwest, was like a ghost town Friday morning. Store general manager John Barton guessed that drivers were likely heeding forecasters’ warnings to stay off the roads.

The blowing snow was picking up outside the truck stop along Interstate 90, which was closed for about 30 miles thanks to a storm that was gaining strength as it moved in from Wyoming, where the interstate was also closed. Conditions were expected to deteriorate throughout the day.

It’s starting to look more and more like The Last Centurion.

Just think, about fifteen years Pope Albert told us we had about ten years to go before we reached the point of no return and there would be no stopping global warming climate change. There has been no appreciable warming in the last fifteen years and still there are suckers who believe Pope Albert, who’s laughing all the way to the bank selling indulgences carbon credits. Meanwhile, because of the environuts our gummint, led by Jug Hussein Ears Downgrade, is still throwing money down the toilet by financing failed companies like Solyndra.

Fools. Money. Parted with. Unfortunately, if it’s gummint money, it’s our money going down the drain.

We’re doomed!