I took a little day trip north into Wisconsin today, and could really see the differing impacts the storm left behind. Definitely an interesting ride.
Left the Quad Cities this morning, following the Mississippi north. When we left, the ground was pretty bare, just a few spots of ice where the sleet and hail piled up. About 20 miles north we began noticing trees glimmering in a glaze of thin ice. The ice gradually became thicker the more north we went, to the point where the larger trees were really weighed down by the ice. The grass was all glittering in the sun in a glaze of ice.
About 30 miles north of the QC, a little snow was beginning to be noticed on the ground, near Thomson IL. North to Savanna the snow was a little deeper, nearing an inch. By the time we reached Galena IL the snow was about 4" deep, with no glaze on the trees by this point. We continued on into Wisonsin where just across the border the snow was about 7-8" deep, with 5-6' drifts along the edges of the cornfields.