Midwest snow storm – in pictures

A trucker drives west towards a winter storm along I-70 near Topeka, Kansas Photograph: Orlin Wagner/AP Snow sticks to interstate road signs along I-70 near Paxico, Kansas Photograph: Orlin Wagner/AP A truck on a snowcovered Highway 40, west of Hays, Kansas, drives through plains blanketed in white Photograph: Stringer/Reuters Debbie Weber digs out her driveway in Hays, Kansas, after a winter storm dumped more than eight inches of snow on the area Photograph: Stringer/Reuters Cindy Gaschler gets help from her two sons Eric, left, and Ethan as they dig snow in Ellis, Kansas, after a winter storm Photograph: Stringer/Reuters Al Ashmore uses a snow blower to dig out snow in Hays, Kansas Photograph: Stringer/Reuters A group of Angus cattle try to shelter from the weather behind a group of buildings in a corral near Ellis, Kansas Photograph: Stringer/Reuters Shoppers stock up on supplies at Dillon's East in Garden City, Kansas Photograph: Laurie Sisk/AP Sidewalks are cleared along the Paseo de Peralta in Santa Fe, New Mexico Photograph: clyde mueller/AP