A Great Plains snowstorm and fierce winds turned roads to ice, reduced visibility to zero and jeopardized thousands of holiday travel plans.In Eastern Colorado, a guard and an imate were killed when a prison van lost control along an icy highway. National Guard troops and sheriff deputies in the Texas Panhandle were called out on nearly 100 rescues.
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