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Winds close U.S. 95 for six hours

Tuesday, May 21, 2002 | 9:06 a.m.

Winds blowing up to 40 mph and kicking up dust clouds closed U.S. 95 southeast of Las Vegas for almost six hours Monday.

The Nevada Department of Transportation and Boulder City Police stopped traffic along U.S. 95 from Searchlight to Railroad Pass about 3 p.m., a police dispatcher said.

The highway was reopened shortly before 9:30 p.m., and police escorted tractor-trailers through the remaining clouds of dust.

Tractor-trailers are no longer allowed to cross Hoover Dam on U.S. 93 since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and now travel through Laughlin to U.S. 95.

The wind also brought unseasonably cool weather, dropping high temperatures into the 70s today and Wednesday, with lows in the 50s, the National Weather Service forecast says.

By the weekend daytime highs should be back in the mid-90s, meteorologist Ernie Cobb said.

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