SNOWSTORM POWDERS ROCKIES, NORTHERN PLAINS.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. Near-blizzard conditions whipped heavy snow through the Rockies and northern Plains on Wednesday, stranding hundreds of students in their schools overnight in Nebraska. Strong winds caused a 25-car pileup in Arizona and collapsed a grocery roof in Texas, killing one person. Teachers and administrators at a high school and middle school in Kearney, Neb., hastily planned a night of food and fun as they rounded up blankets and cots for 300 snowed-in students. Cafeteria staff were called back to work to fix dinner. "I'm not exactly sure where they are going to put everyone," said Margene Dahlstedt, director of finance for the school district in the central Nebraska city of 25,000. A 170-mile section of Interstate 80 was closed in Nebraska, stranding at least 130 cars. In 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). , 10 inches of snow had fallen by Wednesday evening in 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 and Bismarck and 6 inches at Williston, Fargo and Jamestown. Strong north winds created wind chills wind chill, the cooling effect of wind and temperature combined, expressed in terms of the effect produced by a lower, windless temperature, also called wind chill factor, wind chill temperature, wind chill equivalent temperature, wind chill index, wind chill of 40 to 70 degrees below zero and reduced visibility to near zero at times. In Wyoming, winds, icy roads and snow caused two chain-reaction pileups involving about 30 cars on Interstate 80. About 20 people were taken to a hospital, none with serious injuries. Heavy snow and near blizzard conditions also were common throughout parts of eastern Idaho, northern Utah and northern Colorado, and blizzard warnings were posted across parts of Colorado, Wyoming, South and North Dakota, Nebraska and Minnesota. More than 2 feet of snow had fallen by afternoon in parts of northern Utah's Wasatch Mountains Wasatch Mountains Range of the south-central Rocky Mountains. They extend about 250 mi (400 km) from southeastern Idaho to central Utah, U.S. The highest peak is Mount Timpanogos (12,008 ft [3,660 m]). The Timpanogos Cave National Monument is within the range. , with up to a foot in the Salt Lake City area. Wyoming's Jackson Hole Jackson Hole, fertile Rocky Mt. valley, c.50 mi (80 km) long and 6 to 8 mi (9.6–12.8 km) wide, NW Wyo., partly in Grand Teton National Park. Jackson Lake, 39 sq mi (101 sq km), a natural lake through which the Snake River flows, was dammed in 1916 to control Ski Area reported 14 inches. "Somebody finally heard my prayers. I've already got about 12 inches on the parking lot, and it's still snowing," said Kent Matthews, manager at Snowbasin ski area near Ogden. The resort had lost about 30 percent of its annual business before the storm ended a mostly dry winter. In Arizona, a wind storm with 60 mph gusts stirred up a dust cloud that caused a pileup along Interstate 10 near Chandler, injuring 17 people, two seriously. All lanes of the interstate were closed for more than five hours. Construction stopped at the NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga Experience, a 20-acre theme park scheduled to open Friday next to Sun Devil Stadium Chicago/St. Louis/Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals • • , site of the Jan. 28 Super Bowl. No damage was reported to the stadium. |
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