Winter Storm Gandolf blankets Hi-Line, moves across US

Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown

Kassidee Calvert, front, shovels snow Thursday morning.

A winter storm named for a fictional evil overlord has cast winter's blight across much of Montana, focusing so far on Blaine and Hill counties, with its impact expected to spread across much of the nation.

Winter Storm Gandolf, named for a character in the fantasy novel "The Well at World's End, " moved into north-central Montana Thursday morning and National Weather Service reports it has dropped a foot or more of snow in the Havre area and is expected to continue through to near midnight.

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