Snowplow slips in Colorado during strong storm

Transportation officials say a snowplow slipped off a highway in the Colorado foothills and landed upside down in a creek amid a powerful wintry storm Tuesday, but the driver wasn’t hurt.

The accident happened at about 4:30 a.m. in Boulder Canyon just west of Boulder, said Amy Ford, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Transportation. Nothing spilled from the truck into the creek, she said.

The cause of the accident was under investigation.

Up to 24 inches of snow fell in parts of the mountains, 18 inches in the foothills and four to eight inches on the eastern Colorado plains before the storm began to move into Nebraska, the National Weather Service said.

About 425 flights have been canceled at Denver International Airport, and delays are averaging about four hours, the airport said.