Snow & Wind Strand Unknown Number Of ‘Off-Grid’ Residents

By Chris Spears
COSTILLA COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – A snow emergency was declared Tuesday in Costilla County after an intense storm hit Monday night. By early Tuesday snow was reported to be falling at the rate of 2-3 inches per hour in the southern San Luis Valley.
It was the latest in a series of storms since mid-December.
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As the storm moved through high winds virtually erased all previous plowing efforts on many county roads near San Luis, leaving drifts up to 10 feet deep in