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Winter Storm Petros Hammers Midwest, Kills At Least 1 (PHOTOS)

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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)

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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)

Winter Storm Petros hammered the Midwest and Great Lakes regions with heavy snow and strong winds that left at least one person dead and caused lots of travel problems.

A six-year-old girl was killed in Michigan Wednesday afternoon in a car crash partially blamed on snowy conditions created by the storm. As of Thursday, a Chicago-area teenager remains missing after reportedly being swept into the water at Diversey Harbor, according to NBC Chicago. The search had to be suspended due to inclement weather conditions.

While piling more than a half-foot of snow in Missouri and Illinois, Petros left tens of thousands without power in the surrounding areas. Along Route 17 in Grant Park, Illinois, as many as 50 vehicles were stranded on a snow-covered road overnight Wednesday and into Thursday morning.

Some drivers in Indiana were stranded for up to 15 hours on state roads overnight Wednesday, according to WGN-TV.

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Heavy snowfall and high winds Wednesday forced the Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission to implement a travel ban lasting until 6 p.m. Thursday into effect, reports WTOL.com. The ban was for both the east and westbound lanes from milepost 0.0 to milepost 59.5. Vehicles such as triple-trailer commercial vehicles, box-type double trailers, mobile homes, campers and boat and horse trailers were prohibited from the turnpike.

In Chicago, well over 1,000 flights were canceled between both Chicago O’Hare International and Midway on Wednesday, according to FlightAware. As much as 17 inches of snow fell in parts of northwestern Indiana, where travel was also crippled.

Check out the collection above for all the latest images being recorded during Winter Storm Petros.

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