听遍美国灾难性新闻--美国中西部遭受暴风雪袭击

Big Storms in the Midwest

Big Storms in the Midwest. Near blizzard(1) conditions in Colo-rado and Wyoming, big snows closed and brought down power lines for thousands. Power Company spokesman Steve Rolstead in Denver says, "We’ve received anywhere between 8 and 12 inches of extremely(2) heavy wet snow. That snow in turn weighed down our transmission(3) lines, it knocked trees into our transmission and distribution(4) lines. And as a result knocked out power to thousands upon thousands of our customers”.

Those snowstorms closed schools and highways as well. The stormy weather brought more rain to the Dakota where flooding(5) is imminent(6) and brought tornados(7) in Iowa that killed at least one person.