GREAT LAKES STATES TAKEN BY SURPRISE BY EARLY SNOW.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A storm made the Great Lakes Great Lakes, group of five freshwater lakes, central North America, creating a natural border between the United States and Canada and forming the largest body of freshwater in the world, with a combined surface area of c.95,000 sq mi (246,050 sq km). states look like a Christmas card not even two weeks past Halloween, leaving up to 2-1/2 feet of snow Monday and catching some people off guard without shovels or other winter survival tools. Autumn leaves weren't even off all the trees yet, and that combined with the heavy, wet snow helped drag down power lines over the weekend. Tens of thousands of people were still without electricity Monday. ``It's really rough, this early in the season,'' said Dianne Strasshofer, as she brushed snow off her coat in a mall where Christmas decorations have been up since before Halloween. The ``lake effect'' storm, feeding on moisture from the Great Lakes, dumped more than 2 feet of snow on northeastern Ohio beginning Saturday. Chardon, about 20 miles east of the city, had 2-1/2 feet by noon Monday. Flakes continued falling in Cleveland, and forecasters said an additional 20 inches were possible in parts of northeastern Ohio by this morning. Munising, on Michigan's Upper Peninsula Upper Peninsula Abbr. UP The northern part of Michigan between Lakes Superior and Michigan. It is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac. Noun 1. , had 27 inches by midday, and Hurley, Wis., had 29 inches. At the eastern end of Lake Ontario, up to 18 inches fell on northern New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . ``It is nice to have it for Christmas, but not now,'' said 80-year-old Delia Johnson, looking out her window in Hurley, where nearly 25 feet of snow fell last winter and wasn't entirely gone until May. Although Snow Belt motorists have to cope with snow and ice every winter, many weren't prepared for this storm. One traffic death in Ohio was blamed on snow-slick roads, and Wisconsin reported eight weather-related highway fatalities. ``I don't ever remember seeing things Seeing Things may refer to:
City crews in Erie, Pa., which had more than 20 inches by Monday, had to stop their autumn leaf pickups so they could outfit their trucks with plows. |
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