April Snow Showers?

A rare spring snowstorm dumped more than a foot of snow on parts of the Midwest and Appalachians, making for a strange scene in one Columbus neighborhood when automatic sprinklers spit water over shrubs that were already blanketed by snow.

"We've been kind of spoiled because the weather was so nice last weekend," said Tina Adams, 37, of Chardon, who played board games with her three children. "The kids got to go outside, play baseball and now we're stuck inside again. It's like the seasons have reversed."

"Surprising when I woke up and saw it. I was getting ready for church and actually had out sandals and a dress to go to church," Nicole Watson told CBS affiliate WTOL in Toledo.

The two-day storm brought temperatures 25 degrees below the normal of around 60 as snow fell across parts of Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina.

In Indiana, a truck went out of control on a bridge on Interstate 70 that was made slick by the snowfall, killing the 40-year-old driver, police said. "I'm sure it was the weather conditions," said Henry County Sheriff's Deputy Jason Williams.

By Sunday evening, a foot of snow had fallen in eastern Michigan and 10 to 13 inches were reported in Detroit's northern suburbs, said meteorologist Greg Smith of the National Weather Service. Snow continued falling early Monday along a long swath of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.

The weakened storm system inched toward the Northeast and Great Lakes on Monday, and any snowfall accumulations were expected to be light. In Ohio, where the southern and eastern suburbs of Cleveland received 14 inches of snow, rain showers were the biggest threat, the Weather Service said.

"This weather sucks," Bilar Castro of Cleveland suburb Shaker Heights told CBS affiliate WOIO.

"I think it's a beautiful day — for December," added Shirley Sistrunk.
In western North Carolina, about 5 inches fell on Grandfather Mountain over the weekend, where the overnight low was 16 degrees and wind gusts reached 139 mph, meteorologists said.

The Detroit Tigers postponed a home game against the Minnesota Twins for the second straight day. A makeup date for Sunday's game was not immediately announced. The teams were scheduled to make up the first game Monday afternoon.

Misti Hunt, a bartender in Bad Axe, Mich., said business was slow Sunday evening as the snow made the roads treacherous and some even totally impassable. "A week ago we were wearing shorts and tank tops," she said.

The wet, heavy snow snapped tree branches and power lines, leaving about 80,000 FirstEnergy customers in the Cleveland area without power Sunday. About 15-20,000 people were still without power Monday morning, reports WOIO's Jonathan Carther. Electric company officials said they didn't want to speculate when all power would be restored, because, with this weather, they'd just be guessing.

"The snow is clinging to the buds on those trees and it's really pulling stuff down" onto the power lines, Durbin said.

Kathy Carney, a waitress at the Maple Leaf Restaurant in Chardon, about 25 miles east of Cleveland, said it was busier than usual at breakfast Sunday.

"It's extra busy because people don't have power. It's like a blizzard out there. It's snowing like crazy," she said.

Frank Hanley, 63, of Chardon, was forced to shovel his driveway so he could drive to church and the store. "It's deep and it's heavy, wet," he said. "I'm looking at a foot on my deck."