Fallout From the Spring Storm
By Michael de Yoanna
Created 2010-03-24 09:30

By: Michael de Yoanna [1]

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Fallout From the Spring Storm

The slushy spring storm has brought more than a foot of snow to most places along the Front Range (and is still falling in places this morning), crippling cities, closing schools, causing power outages and a slew of accidents, and prompting long, ongoing delays at Denver International Airport. "The FAA has imposed a ground hold on flights arriving into DIA, so right now nothing is arriving so we can clean the backlog of departures," DIA spokesperson Chuck Cannon tells 9News [2]. Tom Henley of Xcel Energy tells 7News [3] thousands customers in the Denver metro area lost power last night. This morning, many are still without, according to Xcel's Electric Outage Map [4], which highlights multiple outages. Thankfully, school buses and minivans aren't part of the commute this morning along highways that have been clogged with accidents. A long list of schools are closed or will open late (via The Denver Post [5]). The storm is expected to move out of the Denver area later today, notes 9News [6].

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[1] http://www.5280.com/tag/authors/michael-de-yoanna
[2] http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=135198&catid=339
[3] http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/22925684/detail.html
[4] http://www.xcelenergy.com/OutageMap/OutageMap.html?juris=PSCo
[5] http://www.denverpost.com/closures_delays
[6] http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=135091&catid=339