The Nation : Storm Blamed in 3 Deaths

Snow piled up as a large storm crossed the central Plains, and Minnesotans braced for a spring blizzard. Scores of families along Lake Erie in Michigan fled wind-whipped floodwaters, and ice and snow were blamed for at least three traffic deaths in Iowa and Nebraska. Hundreds of homes and businesses along Lake Erie, including some near Toledo, Ohio, and others around Lake St. Clair, north of Detroit, were flooded. Flash flood watches were posted over a large portion of New York state, western Pennsylvania and southeast Ohio.