Winter Storm Quo blasted the Great Lakes region, dumping more than a foot of snow on its eastward path. Quo moved into the Northeast on Wednesday, where it will dump additional snow before exiting the country.
Heavy snowfall complicated travel conditions, causing accidents from the High Plains to the Great Lakes, including a 33-car pileup outside of Buffalo. Some schools were closed Tuesday and Wednesday in areas that saw the most severe impacts from this storm.
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Here are the latest impacts from the states affected by Quo.
Icy roads on the westbound side of Route 179 caused , about 10 miles from Buffalo, reports WKBW.
The massive wreck,which included a Hamburg Police vehicle, took crews over three hours to clear the highway. in the accident, however, a few motorists were transported to local hospitals for evaluation, according to the Hamburg Police Department.
After more than a foot of snow fell in some parts of the state, travel quickly went downhill.
AnOakland County sheriff was injured Tuesday morning after a driver traveling on a slick roadway in Pontiac , according to MLive.com.
"The car scraped the patrol vehicle on the driver's side," the sheriff's office reported. "The deputy was struck while he was standing in the roadway and knocked over the hood of the vehicle. The vehicle continued sliding, striking a second patrol vehicle and stopping shortly after the impact."
The 37-year-old deputy suffered a broken hand and bruises on his side. He was treated atMcLaren Oakland Hospital for his injuries.
Mayor Virgil Bernero in attempts to remove all travel from the roads until plowing was complete. Several reports of incapacitated vehicles were reported along US-127 and Interstate 96, according to WLNS.com.
With as much as 8 inches of snow on the ground Tuesday morning, several counties canceled schools in the Lower Peninsula Tuesday. Those counties include Kent, Ottawa, Midland and Saginaw, according to the Associated Press. Some schools in the Lower Peninsula remained closed Wednesday.
In the Upper Peninsula, a portion of M-28 between Munising and Marquette was closed from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday due to whiteout conditions that made travel extremely dangerous, the AP also reported. With wind speeds as high as 50 mph reported at the Mackinac Bridge, officials were also forced to temporarily close the overpass to all vehicles except passenger cars, passenger vans and empty pickup trucks, the report added.
Extreme delays after several accidents took place Tuesday afternoon, the Janesville Gazette reported.
One southbound lane was opened following the accident, but officials are asking drivers to consider alternate routes.
"We're encouraging folks to use alternate routes through the remainder of the afternoon here," saidMike Bie, Wisconsin Department of Transportation communications manager.
The eastbound lanes of Highway 14 were also closed at Pontiac Drive due to an accident involving a tractor trailer.
Although snow totals were modest Tuesday across northern Illinois, air travel still suffered in Chicago. At least two planes reportedly slid off runways at O'Hare International Airport Tuesday afternoon, but there were no injuries reported.
According to FlightAware, more than 600 flights into and out of O'Hare Airport . Dozens more flights were canceled at Chicago's Midway Airport, FlightAware also said.
Few schools , and even fewer canceled outright, according to ABC 7 Chicago.
In Sioux Falls, where nearly 5 inches of snow fell through Tuesday morning, an accident on Interstate 29 near 41st Street brought the highway to a crawl Mondayevening. By Tuesday morning, there were no major accidents reported in the Sioux Falls area, but a map from the state Department of Transportation showed were snow- and ice-covered.
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A St. Joseph City snowplow clears a section of Broad Street in St. Joseph, Mich., Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. (Don Campbell/The Herald-Palladium via AP)