DENVER - National Guard troops in tracked vehicles crawled through 10-foot snowdrifts and whiteout conditions yesterday in eastern Colorado, rescuing motorists trapped by the region's second holiday season blizzard.

The storm, which brought Denver to a standstill and hampered holiday air travel Thursday and Friday, was slowly moving east, spreading snow from New Mexico to the Dakotas and generating strong thunderstorms in the lower Mississippi Valley. Blizzard warnings were posted for eastern Colorado and western Kansas and into parts of New Mexico, Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle.Read this article in full with a
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