Winter Storm Quiana Dumps Major Snowfall During Cross-Country Trek (PHOTOS)

Winter Safety and Preparedness

Here are the images we'll remember from the latest cross-country winter storm.

February 28, 2019

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Mounds of ice collect along the Lake Erie shore at Hoover Beach, in Hamburg, N.Y., Monday, Feb. 25, 2019. High winds howled through much of the nation's eastern half for a second day Monday, cutting power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses, closing schools, and pushing dramatic mountains of ice onto the shores of Lake Erie.(AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson)

Winter Storm Quiana completed its cross-country trek early this week, pivoting into the Northeast, where it brought damaging winds that knocked out power to more than half a million homes and businesses.

Trees crashed down all across Massachusetts Monday as wind gusts 60 mph and higher clobbered the state. Cars, homes and power lines were caught underneath the falling trees, causing numerous reports of damage.

On Sunday, high winds pushed huge chunks of ice out of Lake Erie up against homes in the town of Hamburg. On Lake Superior, huge waves rolled onto the coast as they were kicked up by the gusty winds.

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(MORE: The Latest Impacts from Winter Storm Quiana)

In Wisconsin, one person died and 71 were injured in a pileup that involved 131 vehicles on Interstate 41 in Neenah, the Winnebago County Sheriff's Office said. The victim was later identified as 30-year-old Andrew Schefelker of Oshkosh, according to the Associated Press.

Over the weekend, Quiana produced intense winds that blew snow into tall drifts in the Plains and upper Midwest. As a result, some roads needed to be shut down until plows could clear the way.

Quiana hammered the Southwest with heavy snowfall Wednesday and Thursday, bringing rare wintry precipitation to parts of Greater Los Angeles and Tucson, Arizona, before moving eastward into the Plains.

The snowstorm caused big problems for travel in northern Arizona on Thursday, shutting down parts of several interstates and closing Flagstaff Pulliam Airport for much of the day. By the evening, Flagstaff had already reported its snowiest single day on record, with more than 35 inches of snow falling on Thursday alone.

Quiana clobbered the Las Vegas area Wednesday night and Thursday, dumping more than a half-foot of snow in some suburbs of the city. At McCarran International Airport, measurable snow was reported for the first time since December 2008. By the time the snow stopped falling, the airport officially reported 0.8 inches of accumulations.

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