Almost 10 inches of snow was dumped in parts of southeastern Michigan during a winter storm triggering a slow morning commute.

Hundreds of schools from the Detroit area were forced to call off the classes on Wednesday due to the storm which started Tuesday and ended Wednesday morning.

According to state police, there were some minor crashes and spinouts, but nobody was injured.

A cause for the winter storm was given by Meteorologist Bryan Tilley of the National Weather Service office in Oakland County's White Lake Township who says that a northwest fringe of a heavy snowmaking system moved in the area that was going through Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Power outages in central and northern Indiana were triggered by a mix of snow sleet and freezing rain. Also classes were delayed Wednesday morning. 

According to the National Weather Service, some inches of snow dropped in northeast Indiana during the night.

Schools in central and northeast Indiana delayed or canceled classes today.

Indiana State Police said that highways in Indiana were covered with snow.

According to police, Wednesday morning traffic on Interstate 74 was near standstill close to Batesville because of the ice and snow on the pavement.

On Tuesday Interstate 69 was closed for two hours due to the crashes which were triggered by the sleet and freezing rain.

For ninety minutes I-69 was closed until the wreckage, which involved a pick-up truck and a semi-trailer, was cleared by the emergency crews, according to Indiana State Police spokesman Sgt. Rod Russell. Two people got injured.

He said: "We're just getting inundated with crashes because of the weather. The roads are treacherous to say the least," the Associated Press reports.

Duke Energy spokeswoman Angeline Protogere said that due to the wind and the accumulation of ice on power lines, thousand of outages occurred.

Duke's website announced early Wednesday morning that 9,000 customer outages were reported since 4 p.m. and 2,200 remained without power.

In eastern Indiana were reported the largest outages, in Henry Country where 1,200 customers remained without power.

The weather service forecast 1 to 2 inches of snow accumulation for the Indianapolis metropolitan area.