Pedestrians come to the aid of Cleveland Police officers who managed to get their cruiser stuck in snow and ice during a storm Saturday, March 8, 2008. A winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow across most of the state, closing roads, canceling airline flights and causing many Ohio counties to declare snow emergencies. (AP Photo/Mike Levy)

This weekend's blizzard was the worst in 10 years in Kentucky (ABC) and broke all kinds of snow records in Columbus, according to Chris Burt [JessePedia], Author of "Extreme Weather" :

Columbus, OH has broken its all Ã¢â‚¬â€œtime record for 24-hour and single-greatest-snowstorm. The single snowstorm record of 15.5Ã¢â‚¬Âï¿½ set only five years ago (2/14-18/2003), was smashed with at least 20.4Ã¢â‚¬Âï¿½ having fallen 3/7-8/2008. The 24-hour record of 12.3Ã¢â‚¬Âï¿½ was also broken with 15.4Ã¢â‚¬Âï¿½ in just the midnight to 6pm CST time period today (3/8/08).

For our non-wireless users, video wrapups of the storm, which included tornadoes and wind damage in Florida, over 20 inches of snow in Ohio, and more than a foot of snow from Oklahoma and Arkansas through Kentucky and Ohio and into New York state.

The first video is the summary of the Midwest / Ohio Valley Blizzard from ABC News' Ryan Owens (featuring Karah Donovan from AccuWeather.com):

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In the second video, recorded Saturday, Ryan describes the southern snow and severe weather event.

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Here are the final snowfall amounts from this week/weekend's blizzard, highest per state as reported by The NWS [JessePedia]Spotter Reports (black), our SnowMatrix

(green)

, and SkiReport.com

(blue)

. Reports are storm totals except for SkiReport which is 72-hour. This may not include COOP reports. Live snow photos from the AccuWeather.com Weather Photo Gallery are shown at right. Maps will be available later today.

Bath, KY also reported 4 inches of sleet. Several locations in Kentucky, Vermont and Maine reported up to 0.50" of freezing rain.

*Unconfirmed. Runner up was Solon with 22.0"

Snow continues piling up on the streets Saturday, March 8, 2008, in Columbus, Ohio. A foot of snow buried parts of the Ohio and Tennessee valleys early Saturday, shutting down travel and many public events. Blizzard warnings remained in effect in Ohio, with winter storm warnings from Tennessee to upstate New York and northern Maine. Wind up to 35 mph whipped the snow and cut visibility to less than a quarter mile in places, the weather service said. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

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