Winter Weather in Michigan, January 29, 2001

A strong low pressure system developed over the central plains, pushing warm air north toward the Great Lakes. Freezing rain broke out across far southeast Michigan early in the morning, and accumulated up to two-tenths of an inch. Hundreds of auto accidents occurred, and school closings were widespread across the area. One poor woman in Monroe slid off a road and into a barn. She sustained minor injuries, and was in an ambulance heading for a hospital, when the ambulance lost control on the ice and slid into a utility pole and another vehicle. The woman was not seriously injured in either accident.Icy roads would be found the very next morning across all of southeast Michigan, as rain that would fall later on the 29th froze that night. Many school districts had to close. In the early morning hours of the 30th near Dexter, a large tanker fire truck rolled over on an icy road. The quarter-million dollar vehicle was destroyed, and the three occupants were sent to the hospital with minor injuries.