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Foot of Snow Dumped on Port Huron
Reported by John Klekamp
Web Produced by Christiana Ciolac

	Between 11 and 13" of snow fell in Port Huron. Video

Port Huron is digging out after a sudden snowfall Tuesday night dumped about a foot of snow.

When Port Huron residents got out of bed this morning, they were still under a blanket, a blanket of snow a foot deep.

"We usually have like flurries and then it will melt away, but this is something," said Craig Morris.

	Snow in Port Huron

Cold winds blowing over the relatively warm waters of Lake Huron made for a whopper of an early season lake-effect snow fall. Even longtime residents were surprised at how much and how fast it piled up.

"Just kept coming down, looking out the window, knowing I was going to be out here in the morning. It just didn't stop. It was just coming down like crazy."

Road crews toiled into the morning, salting and plowing the main thoroughfares. Everyone else had to grab a shovel and get to work before they could even go to work.

"I woke up and I didn't know it snowed that much. I called in to work and said I was going to be about a half hour late," said Margaret Teets.

Many kids had the day off for the beginning of Thanksgiving break.

The National Weather Service says in December 2000 there was a storm system that went through Port Huron dumping 15 inches of snow. It has been at least 10 years since Port Huron has seen that big of a lake-effect snow.

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