The snowstorm that hit metro Detroit on Wednesday night and into Thursday took a little longer to get started than expected, but it did hit the area and drop several inches of snow.

DETROIT – Metro Detroit received some significant snow leading into Thursday, resulting in slick conditions and hundreds of school closures. The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported.

A powerful and deadly winter storm that has been slamming the Plains and Midwest Wednesday morning moved into Chicago, Detroit and the Great Lakes during the afternoon.