A commuter makes his way through Chicago's first major snowstorm of the season Friday, Dec. 1, 2006, in Chicago.
Snow flies as Richard McClure clears the sidewalk in front of his home Friday, Dec. 1, 2006, in Pittsburg, Kan. Area residents began the process of digging out from the effects of the massive winter storm that dropped a mixture of sleet, ice and snow in a band stretching from Texas to Illinois Thursday.
Robert Schwandt, of Green Bay, Wis., waits at the ticket counter at the Outagamie Regional Airport in Greenville, Wis., Friday, Dec. 1, 2006, to have his flight to Milwaukee changed due to a snow storm in the southeast region of Wisconsin.
Steve Peterson scrapes ice from the windows of his vehicle Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006, in Joplin, Mo. Peterson and other southwest Missouri residents were dealing with the first winter storm of the season that was forecast to dump up to 10 inches of snow on the region. (AP Photo/Mike Gullett)
A tractor-trailer and a car sit along the sides of Interstate 44 in Oklahoma City on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006, after being involved in separate accidents during the first winter storm of the season in the area.
Anna Kamerer watches her friends sled down a hill in Wichita, Kan., Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006. A winter storm threatened to dump up to seven inches of snow across much of Kansas on Thursday, closing schools and canceling area events.
Edgar Sanchez, left, and Marquis Edmond, both 16, try sledding in a wagon in Edmond, Okla., Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006, during the season's first winter storm.
Letter carrier Mark Natalini scrapes ice from his truck before beginning his route Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006, outside the U.S. Post Office in Pittsburg, Kan. The region was under a winter storm warning through Thursday as the second wave of the first storm of the season passed through the area.
Cars drive north on Interstate 35 in Wichita, Kan., Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006. Storms that roared through the Northwest and Rockies earlier in the week blew into the southern Plains and Midwest Thursday, bringing the first significant ice and snow of the season.
A snowplow clears snow and spreads sand to assist a big rig stuck on an uphill stretch of U.S. 77 in Ponca City, Okla., during blizzard conditions Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006. The first major snowstorm of the season blew across the Plains and Midwest, grounding hundreds of flights, closing schools, glazing highways and threatening to dump up to a foot of snow on communities that had basked in balmy weather only days earlier.
Blowing snow obscures the Morony Dam Road near Great Falls, Mont., Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006. Gusty winds caused snow drifts to build on many local roads and kept snowplow drivers busy on Thursday.
An American Airlines jet is de-iced before it taxis to the runway for takeoff at Tulsa International Airport in Tulsa, Okla., Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006. Heavy snow moved into Oklahoma on Thursday morning after sleet and freezing rain left roads across Oklahoma slick and hazardous and shut down schools and many government offices.