Images: Wintry Weather Grips U.S.
Before dawn and in -9 degree weather, Tom Tuning, right, greets men who wait for the opening of the St. Francis Centers day shelter, where Tuning is finance director, in downtown Denver, Thursday Dec. 5, 2013.
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Before dawn and in -9 degree weather, men wait for the opening of the St. Francis Centers day shelter, in downtown Denver, Thursday Dec. 5, 2013.
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Colleen Martinez shovels snow off her driveway in Santa Fe, N.M., Tuesday, Dec, 5, 2013.
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A driver makes their way up a snow covered Monte Alto Rd in Eldorado, N.M., early Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. Some northern New Mexico highways have difficult driving conditions Thursday as the latest blast of freezing temperatures, wind and snow causes delays and closures in parts of the state.
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Jennifer Maez, left, and Jared Romero go out for a stroll in the snow on the Frontage Road along I-25 near Santa Fe, N.M. Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013.
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As night falls, a woman crosses a street in seven degree weather, in downtown Denver, Wednesday Dec. 4, 2013.
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At dawn and in -9 degree weather, a woman braves the cold in downtown Denver, Thursday Dec. 5, 2013.
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George Lara, a graduate student at the University of Texas, uses a deicer to clear the windshield of his car on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, in Odessa, Texas.
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David Palomino clears the sidewalk of snow on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 in Santa Fe, N.M.
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Riverside Elementary students and teachers walk to the waiting school buses on Wednesday Dec. 4, 2013, in Brainerd, Minn. Schools were open as the storm reached into the second day in Central Minnesota.
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A drake mallard swims in a few inches of water at a partially frozen Big Sioux River in Sioux Falls, S.D., on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013.
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As night falls, rush hour begins in seven degree weather, in downtown Denver, Wednesday Dec. 4, 2013.
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Alton Zenker feeds calves on his ranch Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013, north of Carson, N.D., as an arctic blast swept across the Northern Plains. Thursdayís projected high is minus-6, falling to minus-10 by Saturday, with overnight lows to 24 below.
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Poudre Fire Authority fire fighters check for survivors in a van that had rolled into a ditch along Carpenter Road south of Fort Collins, Colo., Wednesday Dec. 4, 2013.
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Bill Earley cleans off his driveway in Sioux Falls, S.D., on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013.
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Before dawn and in -9 degree weather, men wait for the opening of the St. Francis Centers day shelter, in downtown Denver, Thursday Dec. 5, 2013.
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Traffics is backed up on highway I-25 after a winter storm system swept through Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, in La Bajada, N.M.
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