Faith, 11 and Brendan, 9, Clinton of Crown Point shovel the sidewalk in front of their home during the snow storm in Crown Point Tuesday afternoon. | Jeffrey D. Nicholls~Sun-Times Media

Taylor Dee, 18, of Gary, walks to class as snow falls on the campus of Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Ind. Tuesday March 5, 2013. Northwest Indiana is expected to get significant snowfall from a winter storm that is predicted to stretch from the Dakotas to Washington, D.C. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Randi Kun walks with three-year-old twin brothers Samuel (left) abd William to the to campus of Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Ind. Tuesday March 5, 2013. Northwest Indiana is expected to get signficant snowfall in a winter storm that will hit much of the Midwest and Washington, D.C. area. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Snow begins to accumulate on decorative grass as people walk to class on the campus of Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Ind. Tuesday March 5, 2013. A late winter storm is expected to bring significant snowfall to Northwest Indiana throughout the day Tuesday. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Snowplows are out and ready as snow begins to fall near the Purdue University Calumet campus in Hammond, Ind. Tuesday March 5, 2013. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Austin Kostoff, 16, shovels his driveway on Erie Street as snow continues to fall Tuesday afternoon March 5, 2013 in Highland, Ind. Though some area schools closed or released students early, Kostoff said he got right to work shoveling after a normal school day. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Reygann Wilson, 8 of Cedar Lake climbs back up the hill for another sled run at the Lake County Fairgrounds in Crown Point Tuesday afternoon. | Jeffrey D. Nicholls~Sun-Times Media

An INDOT snow truck plows around the Square in downtown Crown Point during the snow storm Tuesday afternoon. | Jeffrey D. Nicholls~Sun-Times Media

INDOT snow trucks clear snow around the Square in downtown Crown Point during the storm Tuesday afternoon. | Jeffrey D. Nicholls~Sun-Times Media

Patrick Hoernig of Dyer, a senior sociology and criminal justice major, brushes off his car as heavy snow continues to fall and accumulate on the campus of Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Ind. Tuesday March 5, 2013. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Xuechung Xue, (from left) Yuanbang Sun and Xuan Wang, all PUC students from China, walk through campus as heavy snow continues to fall and accumulate at Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Ind. Tuesday March 5, 2013. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Bushes and trees are heavy with thick snow as students come and go on the campus of Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Ind. Tuesday March 5, 2013. | Stephanie Dowell~Sun-Times Media

Blake Dobson, 5, uses his sled as a shelter from heavy snow fall while walking back up a hill along Harrison Blvd. in Valparaiso Tuesday Mar. 5, 2013. Dobson, of South Haven, joined family, friends and more than twenty other sledders on the hills. | Andy Lavalley~Sun-Times Media