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ERIE, Pa.-As much as 2 feet of snow fell around parts of the Great Lakes region Monday, making driving hazardous and closing some schools.Cold wind picked up moisture from the lakes to produce lake-effect snow that piled up on the eastern and southern shores of lakes Superior, Michigan, Erie and Ontario.Police reported numerous accidents on slippery roads in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York."It's not nice," emergency dispatcher Laurie Moore said in New York's Cattaraugus County. "Lots of snow. Roads are snow-covered and slippery."Several school districts in northwestern Pennsylvania closed or planned to delay classes because of the slippery roads.More than 60 Ohio Department of Transportation plows were at work clearing roads in the region. Motorists in northern Indiana were warned that visibility along Interstate 94 and the Indiana Toll Road could drop to near zero at times.The National Weather Service said the heaviest snow was in upstate New York. Downwind from Lake Ontario, 24 inches had fallen at Constableville on the Tug Hill Plateau, a region that usually gets roughly 25 feet of snow a year. Downwind from Lake Erie in western New York, 20 inches had piled up at South Dayton, south of Buffalo.In northwest Pennsylvania, Erie reported as much as 14 inches of snow on the ground Monday morning.Up to a foot was forecast by Tuesday in northern Indiana, downwind from Lake Michigan, with 10 inches possible in Ohio's Cleveland area, the weather service said. Up to a foot of snow also is possible in parts of Michigan's Upper Peninsula along the shore of Lake Superior.As in the days of Noah....
