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Winter Storm Rocky Blamed for 6 Deaths

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Jeremy Timmerman begins work on an owl made of snow completing an elephant Tuesday Feb. 26, 2013 in Burlington, Iowa. It took Timmerman about two hours to make his first creation. The Burlington area saw about 4-5 inches of snow accumulation during Tuesday's storm. (AP Photo/The Hawk Eye, Brenna Norman

 

Winter Storm Rocky packed heavy snow and strong winds left six people dead in Kansas, hundreds of vehicles crashed or stranded in Wisconsin, and tens of thousands of utility customers without power in Michigan.

"It's the heaviest snow we've received all winter long, as far as the largest quantity and it's wet," said Mark Rupnik, a sheriff's lieutenant in Sheboygan County, Wis., where residents were hit with 15 inches of wet snow over two days — Tuesday and Wednesday. "This is our big storm for the year, I hope."

 

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Winter Storm Rocky Pummels Midwest, Heads East

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Thanks to Jim Self for this pic! These "city limit" signs are mounted about 8-10 feet high! Amazing! pic.twitter.com/HaEQi4Uory

 

A massive, slow-moving storm paralyzed parts of the nation's midsection with heavy, wet snow Tuesday, straining power lines, closing schools, clogging roadways and delaying hundreds of flights before churning eastward, where forecasters expected it to dump 5-8 inches of snow in southeast Michigan on Wednesday afternoon and up to a foot in northern New England by later in the evening.

 

 

Winter Storm Rocky: State-by-State Impact

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Winter Storm Rocky is marching east toward Chicago, Milwaukee and Indiana. At least three deaths are being blamed on the storm, which brought deep snow to Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma Texas and  Missouri. Miles of roads were closed in the Central Plains, and thousands of people have no power Tuesday morning. There is a severe side to Rocky. It's bringing heavy rain and a tornado threat to the Southeast.

Here's a state-by-state breakdown on the impacts of Winter Storm Rocky.

 

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