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To: articwarrior who wrote (31665)	11/10/1998 2:08:00 PM
From: Big Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.... First Heavy Snow Shuts Down Plains By Roger Petterson Associated Press Writer Tuesday, November 10, 1998; 12:37 p.m. EST The first big snowstorm of the season swept across the northern Plains today, closing more than 600 miles of major highways and ripping down power lines. It also spun off thunderstorms that flattened houses in a Missouri university town. Power outages were scattered from South Dakota and Nebraska into Illinois and Arkansas as wind gusted to 65 mph and wind chills dropped below zero. Many schools were closed and ships on the upper Great Lakes were warned of high waves as wind hit 85 mph. Carri Cole was asleep at Columbia, Mo., when a thunderstorm threw a neighbor's shed against the outside wall of her bedroom. ''My wall and bed started shaking like it was a horror movie,'' she said. One person was killed in a car crash in Minnesota and a body was found in a car in hard-hit South Dakota. More than 10 inches of snow had fallen by late morning in Minnesota and scores of traffic accidents were reported, with nearly 200 in just a few hours in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. South Dakota Gov. Bill Janklow today ordered the closing of all 252 miles of Interstate 29 from the Nebraska state line to North Dakota. And he and Minnesota authorities shut down I-90 all the way from Ellsworth Air Force Base in western South Dakota to Worthington, Minn., a distance of about 400 miles. ''We literally have dozens, if not hundreds, of stranded vehicles,'' Janklow said. ''It's dangerous out there and people just flat can't be out,'' he said. No travel was advised in the rest of South Dakota and in wide areas of North Dakota and Nebraska. In western South Dakota, wind gusts up to 40 mph pushed the wind chill index to 11 below zero at Buffalo and Rapid City. To the south, the storm turned to severe thunderstorms. Wind measured at more than 50 mph flattened at least 20 houses and damaged dozens more early today in Columbia, Mo. At some houses, only the slabs were left. At least seven people were taken to hospitals, but none were in serious condition, authorities said. Emergency crews headed into the wreckage after daybreak this morning see if anyone was trapped in the rubble. Thunderstorms also raked Iowa, northern Illinois and Arkansas with wind up to 65 mph, downing trees and power lines and blowing a truck off an Illinois highway. Some 16,000 customers were blacked out in the Chicago area. As the storm stretched eastward, wind ripped across the upper Great Lakes with gusts of 85 mph on Michigan's Mackinac Island. Waves of 18 to 20 feet were possible on Lake Superior, the National Weather Service said. Today is the 23rd anniversary of the sinking of the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald, which went down with 29 sailors in waves up to 16 feet high. Power outages were reported today in parts of Nebraska, Iowa and in several South Dakota cities, including Vermillion where police banned travel within the city limits and warned that violators would be arrested. Earlier, the storm had dumped up to 2 feet of snow in the Colorado Rockies, knocking out power to 10,000 people around Durango, Colo. Mountainous northern Arizona also had its first big snowfall of the season, topped by a foot near Flagstaff. © Copyright 1998 The Associated Press big loosbrock.com