Residents in the metro area and much of southern Minnesota put their snowblowers and shovels to work Wednesday as they dug out from the season’s largest storm that dropped up to a foot of snow in places and took down power lines,

Minnesota is digging itself out of a major winter storm system that dumped a foot of snow on Wednesday morning. Snow started falling on Tuesday afternoon/evening but intensified overnight, causing havoc on the roads, causing the suspension of bus services in the Twin Cities, and at one point leaving more than 11,000 households without power.