DENVER-
A storm system piled more than a foot of snow on the Colorado foothills on Tuesday and hit the Plains with heavy rain, hail and violent thunderstorms.
Evergreen, in the foothills west of Denver, reported 16 inches of snow, and other foothills towns had up to 14 inches.
“There’s cars sliding off the roads everywhere,” said Rick Olde, owner of Olde’s Convenience Store in Evergreen.
Some schools were closed in the area. Interstate 25 was closed about 14 miles north of the New Mexico state line by a downed power line, but it was not immediately clear if that was caused by the storm.
Hail the diameter of quarters peppered parts of southeastern Colorado, and authorities said some rural roads were blocked by flooding from heavy rain in northeast Colorado, northwest Kansas and southwest Nebraska.
The weather system also threw a line of storm weather across the southern Plains, and the National Weather Service posted severe thunderstorm warnings for sections of Oklahoma and Texas.
