Deadly blizzards swept a Midwest Monday and into Tuesday morning during holiday transport week, filling hotels along vital roadways from eastern New Mexico to Kansas as motorists sought safety, USA TODAY and other outlets report.
Bill Cook, who works during a Best Western in Clayton, N.M., nearby a Texas state line, told a Associated Press that he hadn’t seen such a charge given a 1970s, when cattle had to be airlifted with helicopters.
Blizzard conditions put state highway crews on alert from northern New Mexico and a Texas Panhandle by Oklahoma and northwestern Kansas, CBS News reports.
On Monday night, Keith Barras, owners of Clayton’s ancestral Eklund Hotel, likely he’d sell out all of his guest rooms.
“We have lots of house games, one of a business has a guitar, we have a piano, so there’ll be a celebration tonight,” Barras said.
The Colorado Springs Gazette reports that there were winds of around 40 mph that brought 2-foot drifts of sleet to some roadways.
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