Brandon Grimes, from left, 9, Braeden Beasley, 8, and Austin Ricks, 4, have a snowball fight in Asbury, Iowa, on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016. The Dubuque, Iowa, area received 4 inches of snow overnight, less than forecasters had expected. (Nicki Kohl/Telegraph Herald via AP)
Winter Storm Caly, the third named storm of the 2016-17 season, dumped sizable amounts of snow across the Northwest, Midwest and Northeast on a multi-day trek across the country.
The storm was responsible for at least nine deaths. Four of those deaths occurred Saturday on snow-covered roads in Iowa, while two more fatal traffic incidents were blamed on the storm Monday in Maine. In Michigan, two men died while clearing snow.
Calywas also responsible for one death north of Corvallis, Oregon. Officials blamed a two-car crash on the poor weather conditions that made roads treacherous, and the driver of one of those cars was killed. The driver of the other vehicle was not injured, according to a local report.
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The storm had major impacts on air travel. More than 1,300 flights were canceled Sunday at Chicago's O'Hare and Midway airports.
A at Detroit Metro Airport Sunday afternoon in icy conditions. According to Delta officials, Flight 724 arriving from Buffalo landed safely, but the McDonnell Douglas MD-88 slid off the icy runway as it was making its way from the runway onto a taxiway, according to WXYZ-TV.