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 DENVER (AP) - A spring storm brought a strange brew of tornadoes, heavy snow, rain and hail to Colorado on Tuesday, damaging buildings and forcing schools and highways to close and stranding buses carrying dozens of schoolchildren.
The same system also brought flooding, tornadoes and high winds to many parts of the Plains. Storms overturned several mobile homes in Texas. Western and central Iowa received up to 3 1/2 inches of rain, and in parts of Nebraska there were reports of as much as 5 inches.
Four buses in Colorado carrying at least 60 children were stranded after being unable to travel in the storm, which dropped more than a foot of snow in about two hours, said Rob Finley, assistant fire marshal for El Paso County. Children in those buses were rescued and taken to shelters.
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