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Published: December 23, 2009

DENVER — Holiday travelers scrambled to adjust their plans Tuesday as a fast-moving snowstorm threatened to bring long delays along with a white Christmas for millions of people throughout the West and Midwest.

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THREE DIE IN DUST STORM
PHOENIX — A sudden dust storm Tuesday spawned a series of collisions involving as many as 20 vehicles on Interstate 10 south of Phoenix, leaving at least three people dead. Arizona Department of Public Safety officials said other casualties were airlifted to Phoenix hospitals with severe burns and other traumatic injuries. A second series of accidents was reported farther south along the main route between Tucson and Phoenix. High winds and blowing dust were also reported west of Phoenix, and the highway patrol was urging drivers headed to Phoenix from California to drive with extreme caution.

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The storm system was already snarling traffic in Arizona on Tuesday, with blizzard-like conditions closing roads in the state and causing a pileup involving 20 vehicles.

The blustery weather in Arizona is part of a storm system that promised to bring more than a foot of snow in parts of Colorado and southern Utah by midday today. Blizzard warnings were likely Christmas Eve in Kansas and other Plains states as the storm moves east.

The storm system was expected to crawl across the Plains states through Christmas Day, with plenty of snow caused by a tropical jet stream pumping in moisture from the storm’s south.

Stan Rose, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Pueblo, Colo., said the snowmaker would give millions of people a white Christmas.

"Pretty much the entire central and southern Rockies are going to get snow, and then it’s going east and will drop more snow,” Rose said.

A winter storm watch was in effect for most of southeast Colorado, the panhandle of Oklahoma and north Texas from late Tuesday through Thursday. There were no major airport delays reported there or in Denver, but holiday travelers across the region were warned to check with their airlines before arriving for flights.

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