Stuck in winter: March ends with blizzard, dumping nearly a foot of snow in southwest ND

Two unidentified men work to get a vehicle out of the snow-covered Econofoods parking lot in north Dickinson after it got stuck Monday morning. Authorities said they responded to multiple accidents and cars stuck in snow following the blizzard that hit Sunday night and Monday morning.

March went out like a lion Monday in southwest North Dakota.

An early spring blizzard brought life to a crawl much of the day after the area was slammed with nearly a foot of heavy, wet snow and high winds late Sunday night and Monday morning. The snow fell on top of slush and icy roads created by Sunday afternoon rainfall and was later kicked up by wind gusts before settling down early in the afternoon.

The storm caused multiple accidents and calls for stuck vehicles, authorities said.

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