Winter Storm Rocky Pummels Midwest, Heads East [1]

Wunderground.com-2/27/13,

Thanks to Jim Self for this pic! These "city limit" signs are mounted about 8-10 feet high! Amazing! #phwx [2] #txwx [3] pic.twitter.com/HaEQi4Uory [4]

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.

A nice snowman and snow kid combo on the east side of Iowa City. Credit: B.A. Morelli [5]

The storm was so big — making travel perilous Tuesday from the Oklahoma Panhandle to the Great Lakes — that snowfall was expected to linger in Chicago and other parts of the Midwest on Wednesday, with additional accumulations of up to 1½ inches, said Matt Friedlein, a meteorologist in the National Weather Service's northern Illinois office. Chicago received 2-4 inches of snow Tuesday, but some northern suburbs got up to 7½ inches, Friedlein said.

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