More than 4 million people across five states were under winter storm alerts on Sunday as heavy lake-effect snow continued to bury the Great Lakes region, prompting emergency declarations and the deployment of National Guard troops to rescue stranded motorists.

Parts of southern Illinois got a blanket of snow this weekend, but it’s nothing compared to the lake-effect snow from Michigan to New York While we have been shivering in cold temperatures, parts of the Great Lakes have been getting buried in lake effect snow.

MADISON, Ohio - Great Lakes communities were pummeled with snow this weekend as unusually warm weather plunged into a lake-effect snow event that is expected to continue until Monday. At least 30 inches had fallen in several places in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and along Lake Erie’s shore in northern Pennsylvania and western New York,