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A snowplow clears snow and spreads sand to assist a big rig stuck on an uphill stretch of U.S. 77 in Ponca City, Okla., during blizzard conditions Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006. The first major snowstorm of the season blew across the Plains and Midwest, grounding hundreds of flights, closing schools, glazing highways and threatening to dump up to a foot of snow on communities that had basked in balmy weather only days earlier.

(Photo: AP/Ponca City Daily News)

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