Dozens spent night in blizzard as cars ran low on gas

I would hate to be stuck in a blizzard!! Well, maybe a blizzard from Dairy Queen would be ok. I have never seen anything like this.

The enormous winter storm that left Midwesterners shivering and crushed snow-laden buildings in the Northeast wouldn't let go Thursday, with dozens of people trapped in a blizzard overnight on a South Dakota highway and three deaths reported when a pickup truck plunged off an icy bridge in Oklahoma.

In South Dakota, people in more than 150 vehicles were stranded overnight on Interstate 29, KELO-TV reported on its website.

Some travelers reported dire conditions. "Mothers with 9-month-old babes, young couples with children running on red or out of gas, vehicles stalled," Codington County Search and Rescue spokesman Pat Culhane told KWAT radio. "There's five-foot drifts with vehicles stuck in them, mostly semis.

By morning, some 70 people had been rescued, with others deciding to stay in their vehicles, which were stuck between the towns of Summit and Sisseton.

Truck driver Randy Sanders said he'd been stuck since 10:30 p.m. and still couldn't see much from his stranded truck Thursday morning.  

In Oklahoma, a pickup truck jumped a guard rail on Interstate 44 near the town of Miami and fell into the Spring River. At least three people died, and several others were rescued.

In parts of the nation's midsection, wind chills dipped to nearly 30 below early Thursday as the region began dealing with the storm's aftermath. The sprawling system unloaded as much as 2 feet of snow, crippled airports and stranded drivers in downtown Chicago as if in a prairie blizzard.

Even the Southwest wasn't spared: Freezing temperatures led to school closures in parts of New Mexico when school buses wouldn't start and delayed the Phoenix Open golf tourney in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Much of Texas was under a hard freeze warning Wednesday; light snowfall stubbornly lingered into the night in Maine. MSN.com