Blizzard roars through snow-weary US midsection

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A second powerful blizzard in a week roared through parts of the nation's midsection today, bringing biting winds and dumping a foot of snow on areas still digging out from last week's major storm.

The storm that rolled into Oklahoma on Tuesday had dropped about a foot of snow by this morning in Bartlesville, about 50 miles north of Tulsa, and another 9 inches across the state line in Siloam Springs, Ark., said Michael Lacy, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Tulsa. He said strong winds created blizzard conditions that limited visibility and made travel hazardous.

Heavy snow was reported in parts of Kansas and Texas, where many school districts cancelled classes in anticipation of yet another round of unusually icy weather.

In northeast Oklahoma, Sandra Barrows was stuck at a Salvation Army shelter after running out of money for hotel rooms. She was hoping to get a bus ticket out of Tulsa, where she got stranded a week ago on her way to a new job in St. Louis, before the third storm in a week hit the area.