The holiday season brings many things, but a deadly snowstorm shouldn’t be one of them.
STORY: Winter Storm Wreaks Havoc In The Midwest
Fierce winds and snow are causing fatal accidents and closed highways across five states, with forecasters warning that pre-holiday travel will be difficult if not impossible across the country.
According to the Associated Press:
Hotels were filling up quickly along major roads from eastern New Mexico to Kansas, and nearly 100 rescue calls came in from drivers in the Texas Panhandle as blizzard conditions closed part of Interstate 40, a major east-west route, Monday night.
The storm has caused at least eleven deaths. Four people were killed when their vehicle collided with a pickup truck in part of eastern New Mexico on Monday where blizzard-like conditions are rare.
While a prison guard and inmate died when a jail van crashed along an icy Colorado roadway. The other five deaths came in Texas after a plane crash was blamed on the conditions.
As of now, the storm is tapering off a bit in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. Up to a foot of snow fell in Boise City, Okla., and Dalhart, Texas, located 30 miles south of the Oklahoma state line, got 7 inches.
Hopefully everyone avoids the roads as they begin to travel during the holidays!
SOURCE: AP
