Holiday blizzard buries Colorado

An unrelenting blizzard expected to dump up to 2 or even 3 feet of snow paralyzed Colorado just five days before Christmas, shutting down interstate highways, the airport, shopping malls and the post office Wednesday.

The National Weather Service predicted 6 to 10 inches of snow would fall overnight for totals of 16 to 30 inches in the Denver metro area. Blizzard warnings are scheduled to last until noon today for the metro area and Eastern Plains as the storm moves out of the state.