TheDenverChannel.com - Foot Of Hail Hits Colorado Springs

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COLORADO SPRING, Colo. -- A slow moving thunderstorm dumped up to a foot of hail Tuesday along this city's southeastern edge, forcing officials to use snowplows to clear a route through a major thoroughfare.

The storm also brought about an inch of rain that left up to 4 feet of water in the middle of streets, trapping dozens of motorists, and turned a sleepy creek into a torrent that peeled the pavement off a bridge, said Lt. Carl Lyman of the Colorado Springs fire department.

One rescued motorist was treated for hypothermia, but nobody was seriously injured, Lyman said...

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