Blizzard Strands Plains Travelers
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A blizzard plastered the northern Plains with deep snow driven by winds up to 60 m.p.h. today, endangering newborn calves and stranding travelers along hundreds of miles of highways.
“We’ve mostly had people sliding off the road. We’re not even pulling them out. We’re just getting people out of the vehicles,” Nebraska State Patrol dispatcher Alex Haberkorn said in Scottsbluff. Several hundred pupils in Colorado spent the night in their schools. Some travelers tried to sleep on the floor of a courthouse. In North Dakota, workers at the Capitol were sent home today about an hour after they arrived.
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