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Early Blizzard Buries Dakotas Photos

Northbound traffic is backed up and traveling slow on 19th Street in northeast Bismarck, N.D., as a blizzard takes hold late Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. A wintry blast of punishing wind and close to 4 feet of snow in places pummeled the Northern Plains, stranding unknown numbers of motorists for a day or more and knocking out power to thousands.

(Photo: AP/Bismarck Tribune, Mike McCleary)