BLIZZARD HALTS PLAINS TRAVEL, CHILLS FLOOD-SANDBAG CREWS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A blizzard shut down much of the northern Plains on Sunday with blinding, wind-blown snow and drifts up to 20 feet high, stranding travelers and making life miserable for volunteers sandbagging Sandbagging is the practice of deceptively portraying oneself as being in a weaker position than is true.
Hundreds of miles of highways were closed in Wyoming, Minnesota Wyoming is a city in Chisago County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 3,048 at the 2000 census. Interstate Highway 35 serves as a main arterial route for the community. Geography Wyoming is located along the South Branch of the Sunrise River. , the Dakotas, Nebraska and the eastern edge of Montana. Thousands - including two-thirds of Grand Forks Grand Forks, city (1990 pop. 49,425), seat of Grand Forks co., E N.Dak., at the confluence of the Red and the Red Lake rivers; inc. 1881. In a spring wheat, livestock, and farm area, the city has grain elevators, state-operated flour mills, and plants that process , population 49,000 - were without electricity. Two people were killed in Wisconsin. The blowing snow Blowing snow[1] is snow lifted from the surface by the wind, at a height of 8 feet (2 meters) or more, that will reduce visibility. Blowing snow can come from falling snow or snow that already accumulated on the ground but is picked up and blown about by strong winds. rebuilt drifts that had begun melting after a winter of record snowfall. ``My mailbox is probably 30 yards away. At times I can't see it,'' said Chad Klinske, who lives about a mile outside Grafton, N.D. ``My drifts that were down to 4 or 5 feet are now 12 feet.'' Even North Dakota North Dakota, state in the N central United States. It is bordered by Minnesota, across the Red River of the North (E), South Dakota (S), Montana (W), and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba (N). Gov. Ed Schafer, who asked President Clinton to declare the state a disaster area, was snowed in Sunday. Power was cut to most of Grand Forks on Sunday and to the entire town of Casselton, about 20 miles west of Fargo. More than 200 of the 1,600 residents kept warm Sunday at the local school, which has its own power generator. An ambulance crew organized a truck brigade to rescue trapped residents. Across the state line in west central Minnesota, dikes failed throughout much of Breckenridge during the night, letting the Red River pour as much as 3 feet deep into streets. Most of the downtown was knee-deep in water and snow-crusted ice, and parked cars were frozen in place. Hundreds of people had been evacuated in Breckenridge because of the flood caused by melting snow from previous storms, and others were stranded by the blizzard, police Chief Dennis Milbrandt said Sunday. Temperatures were in the 20s and the wind-chill was below zero. Meanwhile, 50 mph winds in Wisconsin and Michigan cut power to thousands and ripped part of the roof off Milwaukee County Stadium • • [ , where the Brewers open their home season today. The game wasn't expected to be affected. |
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