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'Bomb cyclone' snow, wind impacts Midwest, Great Lakes

Ice forms on a calf at a ranch outside of Kilgore, Neb., Wednesday. A bomb cyclone storm bringing heavy snow and strong winds to several Rockies and Plains states is making travel difficult in many areas and impossible in others. Officials have closed Interstate 29 in northeastern South Dakota and say other stretches of interstates are likely to close later. - photo by Associated Press

Bomb Cyclone cow.jpg — Ice forms on a calf at a ranch outside of Kilgore, Neb., Wednesday. A bomb cyclone storm bringing heavy snow and strong winds to several Rockies and Plains states is making travel difficult in many areas and impossible in others. Officials have closed Interstate 29 in northeastern South Dakota and say other stretches of interstates are likely to close later. - photo by Associated Press

Heavy snow and strong winds hammered parts of the central U.S. on Thursday and began moving into the Great Lakes region, knocking out power to tens of thousands of people and creating hazardous travel conditions a day after pummeling Colorado.

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