The Nation : Major Storm Dumps Snow From Texas Across Midwest

A major storm spread snow and ice from Texas and Louisiana to Michigan, causing scores of traffic accidents and closing schools, while temperatures in the upper Midwest plunged to as low as 37 degrees below zero. “Sure was a short spring,” said Eric Sandin in Shreveport, La., where light snow fell and the temperature dropped 33 degrees overnight to a low of 27. Snow also fell from northern Texas across Oklahoma, Arkansas, western Kentucky, central Missouri, much of Illinois and Indiana and lower Michigan and into Ohio. Winter storm warnings were issued for parts of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Lower Michigan. Eleven inches of snow fell at Montpelier, Ohio. More than 7 inches fell at Detroit as well as at Fort Wayne, Ind.