Heavy snow and winds pound Plains, Rockies
Heavy snow and strong winds pounded the country's mid-section Tuesday.
In Colorado, an invasion of arctic air sent temperatures plunging, producing slick, snowy roads that led to spin-outs and accidents, reports CBS News correspondent Barry Petersen.
"Nobody knows how to drive on them because we haven't had to in awhile," a Colorado resident said. "But yeah, winters here."
Weather may be to blame for a deadly crash in Jefferson County.
The driver of one car died after a head-on collision with another vehicle that slid across an icy road into oncoming traffic. Four people were sent to the hospital in critical condition.
In Colorado Springs, a record amount of snow on Tuesday didn't help matters, either. A driver lost control and went barreling through a neighborhood.
"I pulled up, parked, walked up to the door and the car came slamming through and hit the house," a neighbor said.
No one was seriously injured, but police said the driver acted recklessly.
"The bottom line is people have to slow down," Colorado state police officer Nate Reid said. "Take their time getting to where you want to go."
It was slow moving for plow operators in South Dakota who have run into trouble cleaning off the roads. The bone chilling temperatures have turned the streets into sheets of ice.
"We've having a little bit of trouble peeling some spots off," Aberdeen, South Dakota, public works director Robin Bobzien said. "It'll take some sunlight to burn some things off."
As Boston station WBZ's Danielle Niles reports, the forecast is showing more cold and more snow.
Wind chills have pushed temperatures 15- 30 degrees below zero in part of the Rockies and pockets of snow are predicted to fall Wednesday from Michigan up through the Northern Plains, dropping a coat of an inch or two. The same system will slide east and New England may see a coating of an inch or two as well.
Another storm may drop six to 10 inches on the West Coast with accumulations of six to 12 inches in parts of the Cascades and Rockies.
Denver's single digit temperatures are expected to spread Southeast.