Snow Blankets Great Lakes Shores

November 17, 2008 11:36 p.m. EST

Erie, PA (AHN) - Road accidents hounded New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania residents even as schools there were closed Monday after snow blanketed the eastern and southern shores of the Great Lakes.

Two feet of snow fell on the central New York town of Constableville at the east end of Lake Ontario on the Tug Hill Plateau. Another 23 inches of snow fell on at Ellicottville, south of Buffalo in western New York.

Fourteen inches of snow dropped on Erie, Pennsylvania. In Michigan's Allegan County, two tractor-trailer rigs overturned prompting authorities to close a section of the northbound lane of U.S. 131.

Weather forecasters predicted one-foot snow in northern Indiana and Michigan's Upper peninsula on Tuesday while10 inches of snow is expected to fall on Cleveland, Ohio.

The heavy snow were attributed to the moisture from the lakes.