Snowstorm blasts upper Midwest; deep freeze follows
CHICAGO - A snowstorm that left a foot or more in parts of the Midwest is in Canada now, but it ushered in a deep freeze as it departed.
Forecasters say temperatures will be in the single digits to below zero in many places, freezing the snow and making driving dangerous.
People fired up snowblowers and dug out their shovels Saturday afterthe storm system dumped anywhere from three to 20 inches of snow across parts of Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana.
The first significant snowstorm of the season created hazardous travel conditions and caused more than 500 flight cancellations.
The National Weather Service said the snow, which first fell in South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa on Friday, continued in Illinois, Indiana and Michigan before heading northeast into Canada late Saturday.
CBS Chicago reports O'Hare Airport received 7.1 inches of snow.
In the southern Wisconsin town of Janesville, between 10 and 20 inches of snow had fallen by Saturday afternoon.
Southside True Value Hardware manager Matt Krienke said business had been good in the days leading up to the storm, but that it had become "very, very, very, very slick."
"People who don't need to drive don't need to be out," he said.