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Updated: 7:40 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013 | Posted: 7:40 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013

AP PHOTOS: Heavy snows hit Great Plains

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Fresh snow covers a roadside where Aspen trees turn yellow each Autumn, near Frisco, Colo., Friday Oct. 4, 2013. Powerful storms moved into the Midwest on Friday due to a cold weather system gaining strength as it traveled east from Colorado and Wyoming. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
AP PHOTOS: Heavy snows hit Great Plains photo
Zack Ruml, 20, of Rapid City, S.D, lifts a heavy crab apple tree branch off of his 1998 Pontiac Gran Prix on Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. The branch smashed the rear window and dented the trunk of the car. Trees in the city are still fully leaved and the heavy snow is breaking trees throughout the city. Blizzards rolled into parts of Wyoming and South Dakota on Friday, bringing the snow-savvy states to an unseasonably early winter standstill. (AP Photo/Steve McEnroe)
AP PHOTOS: Heavy snows hit Great Plains photo
Mari Havens, a courtesy clerk at a Rapid City, S.D. Safeway store, gathers up shopping carts in the store's wind and snow swept parking lot Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. Blizzards rolled into parts of Wyoming and South Dakota on Friday, bringing the snow-savvy states to an unseasonably early winter standstill. (AP Photo/Steve McEnroe)
AP PHOTOS: Heavy snows hit Great Plains photo
Trucks ascend Vail Pass along I-70 after overnight snow fell in the mountains of Colorado. Friday Oct. 4, 2013. Powerful storms moved into the Midwest on Friday due to a cold weather system gaining strength as it traveled east from Colorado and Wyoming. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
AP PHOTOS: Heavy snows hit Great Plains photo
Fresh snow dusts a hillside where Aspen trees turn yellow each Autumn, near Frisco, Colo., Friday Oct. 4, 2013. Powerful storms moved into the Midwest on Friday due to a cold weather system gaining strength as it traveled east from Colorado and Wyoming. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
AP PHOTOS: Heavy snows hit Great Plains photo
Brenda Nolting, of Rapid City, S.D., rolls her cart to her car after stocking up on necessities Friday, Oct. 4, 2013 at a local supermarket in Rapid City. An early snow storm has swept through Wyoming and western South Dakota, dropping more than a foot of snow in places. (AP Photo/Steve McEnroe)
AP PHOTOS: Heavy snows hit Great Plains photo
Chad Hoffman clears snow from the entrance to his apartment building in Rapid City, S.D,, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. South Dakota emergency agencies are asking snowmobile operators in the Rapid City area to help find motorists stranded by an autumn storm. The National Weather Service says the storm dumped at least three and a half feet of wet, heavy snow in the Black Hills. Rapid City had 21 inches, but 31 inches was recorded just a mile southwest of the city. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Chris Huber)
AP PHOTOS: Heavy snows hit Great Plains photo
A vehicle is stuck going the wrong way down St. Joseph Street in Rapid City, S.D,, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. South Dakota emergency agencies are asking snowmobile operators in the Rapid City area to help find motorists stranded by an autumn storm. The National Weather Service says the storm dumped at least three and a half feet of wet, heavy snow in the Black Hills. Rapid City had 21 inches, but 31 inches was recorded just a mile southwest of the city. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Chris Huber)
AP PHOTOS: Heavy snows hit Great Plains photo
Lori Mehlberg shovels snow to clear a pathway to the font door of her home in Rapid City, S.D., Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. South Dakota emergency agencies are asking snowmobile operators in the Rapid City area to help find motorists stranded by an autumn storm. The National Weather Service says the storm dumped at least three and a half feet of wet, heavy snow in the Black Hills. Rapid City had 21 inches, but 31 inches was recorded just a mile southwest of the city. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Benjamin Brayfield)

By The Associated Press

The Associated Press

The weather is so bad in the Great Plains that even plow trucks are getting stuck.

Heavy snow, strong rain, hail storms and tornadoes hit the region in the last few days, cutting power and stranding drivers while causing at least 3 deaths.

While the Dakotas are digging out of up to 43 inches of snow, Nebraska and Iowa are reeling from nine tornadoes that touched down Friday evening.

Rapid City plow driver Jesse Curnow said Saturday morning things weren't moving so smoothly in chest-high drifts after a record 21-inch snowfall.

"I'm trapped. I can kind of move, but only a little bit," Curnow said by telephone from the cab of his truck.

Here are some images of the record-breaking storm.

Copyright The Associated Press

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