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"It's still a very powerful storm," said meteorologist Jim Kalina of the National Weather Service. National Guard troops in tracked vehicles crawled through whiteout conditions to rescue motorists who became stranded in the region's second blizzard during the busy holiday travel season. "They're telling me it's zero visibility," said Maj. Gen. Mason Whitney, the state adjutant general.

"They'll kind of bump into something and it'll turn out to be a car with people in it." The storm, which hampered air travel through Denver on Thursday and Friday, spread snow from New Mexico to the Dakotas and generated strong thunderstorms in the lower Mississippi Valley. Parts of Interstate Highway 70 from the Rockies to Kansas remained closed Saturday, along with several other major east-west highways. In New Mexico, Interstate Highway 25 from Pueblo to Santa Fe was also closed. In North Dakota, transportation officials pulled snowplows off many roads late Saturday because of reduced visibility. Bismarck reported more than 7 inches of snow, and areas south could get 14 inches by today.

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