Severe Storm Delivering Split-Personality Weather Across the States
A severe storm system in the midwest is producing blizzard like conditions to the north, closing roads, schools and airports.
The warmer side of the system brought destructive tornadoes to areas from southern Illinois to Alabama.
A blizzard for one half of the country and summer-like severe weather for the other all from the same massive storm system.
"It got bad quick. Roads are covered snows coming down pretty hard," a driver from South Dakota said.
White out conditions closed highways from Colorado to the Dakotas. The storm brought up to a foot snow to Wisconsin, some areas getting two inches in only an hour.
In Minnesota businesses and schools closed because of dangerous conditions. Drivers looking to brave the storm ended up in a ditch or stuck.
"It was obvious he wasn't familiar with driving in the deep snow so I gave him a little push," a Minnesota driver said.
Down south the storm looked much different as several tornadoes were reported in Mississippi, one tearing across a community college campus.
In Alabama, extremely dangerous tornado hit near Aliceville damaging homes as well as a federal prison.
"I was too busy praying to worry about what was going on, I was just calling on the name of Jesus asking Him to take care of us. I don't know what had happened until I came out of that closet and I saw all the damage and I got nervous then. But I was grateful to God He brought us through it," a tornado victim from Aliceville, Alabama, said.
A total of six tornadoes have been reported in Mississippi and Alabama, severe weather for the midwest is expected to end Wednesday as that storm system works it way towards the eastern seaboard.
