The Nation - News from March 29, 1985

Four feet of snow and near-blizzard conditions blasted the West, trapping truckers on roads and gamblers in Nevada casinos. There were 48 inches of snow in the Utah mountains. Near-blizzard conditions were reported in Montana, where 150 miles of road were closed, and North Dakota, where deep drifts blocked highways. A heavy snow warning was issued for the Colorado high country. In Nevada, the storm, which brought four feet of snow to the mountains, was blamed for the death of a Reno man whose wheelchair got stuck in the snow at the end of a ramp outside his house.