MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Midwest snowstorm packing heavy snow and strong winds left six people dead in Kansas, hundreds of vehicles crashed or stranded in Wisconsin, and tens of thousands of utility customers without power in Michigan.

“It’s the heaviest snow we’ve received all winter long, as far as the largest quantity and it’s wet,” said Mark Rupnik, a sheriff’s lieutenant in Sheboygan County, Wis., where residents were hit with 15 inches of wet snow over two days — Tuesday and Wednesday. “This is our big storm for the year, I hope.”