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U.S. NEWS Monday 16 april 2018
Spring storm moves east after

blanketing central U.S. in snow

By JEFF BAENEN and RICK first game of Sunday's twin
CALLAHAN bill was also postponed,
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Min- leaving just the night game.
nesotans slogged through The prolonged wintry
a mid-April storm Sunday weather is "starting to beat
that dumped 2 feet (half a everybody down," said Erik
meter) of snow on parts of Ordal, who lives in down-
the Upper Midwest, coat- town Minneapolis and
ed roads with ice and bat- was taking his 3-month-old
tered areas farther south golden retriever puppy,
with powerful winds and Dakota, out for a walk in
tornadoes before plowing the snow. Ordal, who grew
toward the Northeast and up in South Dakota, said he
Mid-Atlantic U.S. is used to the cold, snowy
The storm system prompted weather "but I'm certainly
Enbridge Energy to tempo- ready for some warmth."
rarily shutter twin oil and Two northeastern Wiscon-
gas pipelines in Michigan sin communities, Tigerton
that may have been re- and Big Falls, received
cently damaged by a ship more than 2 feet (60 cen- Pedestrians cross Nicollet Ave., running to catch a bus during a
anchor strike. timeters) of snow over the snowstorm in Minneapolis, Minn., Saturday, April 14, 2018.
The Line 5 pipelines were weekend, the National Associated Press
temporarily shuttered Sun- Weather Service in Green
day afternoon due to Bay reported. Parts of the
a power outage at En- state that were already
bridge's terminal in Supe- blanketed were getting a
rior, Wisconsin, Enbridge second helping of snow on
spokesman Ryan Duffy told Sunday. The heavy snow
The Detroit News . Enbridge caused part of a hotel roof
decided to shut down the to collapse over a pool at
twin pipelines until weather a hotel in Ashwaubenon,
conditions improve in the which is next to Green Bay,
Straits of Mackinac, which but no one was in the pool
links Lake Huron and Lake area at the time, and no
Michigan, Duffy said. one was hurt.
At least three deaths were The storm finally let up in
blamed on the storm sys- South Dakota, allowing the
tem, which stretched from airport in the state's largest
the Gulf Coast to the Great city, Sioux Falls, to reopen
Lakes. Storms also knocked for the first time since Thurs-
down trees, caused airport day. Interstates 90 and 29
delays and dropped hail in parts of eastern South
on the Carolinas. Dakota also reopened,
At Minneapolis-St. Paul In- and no-travel advisories
ternational Airport, where were lifted across the state
more than 13 inches (33 border in southwestern
centimeters) of snow had Minnesota. In Michigan,
fallen, 230 flights were can- freezing rain that began
celed Sunday. Two runways falling overnight had left
were open, but winds were roads treacherous and cut
still strong and planes were power to hundreds of thou-
being de-iced, spokesman sands of homes and busi-
Patrick Hogan said. On Sat- nesses by midday Sunday
urday, the storm caused even as heavy snow was
the cancellation of nearly forecast to dump a foot
470 flights at the airport. or more of snow on parts
The wintry grip on the Twin of the state's Upper Penin-
Cities continued to keep sula by early Monday. The
the boys of summer off airport in Charlotte, North
the diamond, forcing the Carolina, tweeted Sunday
postponement of the third that severe weather had
straight Twins-White Sox caused a ground stop and
game. The Yankees and forced air traffic controllers
Tigers were rained out Sat- to leave their tower. Mean-
urday in Detroit and had while, television stations in
planned to play a double- Charlotte were posting im-
header on Sunday, but the ages of large hail.q