Great Lakes Locked In Total White-Out

A fast-moving storm socked the Great Lakes with up to two feet of snow and powerful wind Saturday, forcing even snow plows off roads.

“It’s terrible up here, a total white-out. You can’t seen nothing,” said Craig Tasson, assistant manager of Jim’s Union 76 Service in Ishpeming, Mich. “They took all the plows off the roads and told everybody to stay home.”

From the lower Great Lakes, heavy rain and wind extended southward along the East Coast, causing flooding in upstate New York, and high wind damaged mobile homes and caused power outages.

Blizzard-like conditions roared across parts of Michigan with snow driven by wind gusting to 40 mph.

Some parts of Upper Michigan reported drifts of 3 to 4 feet. Highways between Marquette and Munising were closed and snow removal crews were sent back to garages in Alger, Marquette and Houghton counties.