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MARQUETTE COUNTY -- Plow as they may, workers struggled to keep up with the weekend's relentless snow fall.  Marquette County accumulated about 14 inches over two days.

I braved the storm with the Marquette County Road Commission's sander, who dumped more than 300 tons of sand from Champion to Harvey.

"This is by far the most intense snow we've had this year easily," said sander, Ken Michels.  "It's been a pretty quiet year until the last couple of days."

But surprisingly, the worst part about the storm wasn't the snow, it was the wind, which swept the snow across the community, creating dangerous white-out conditions.

"Visibility's horrible out there," said Neguanee Township motorist, Daniel Jordan.  "Usually you can see and it's not blowing as bad, but you can't see anything!"

The National Weather Service recorded visibility at just under a mile for most of Sunday afternoon.  Forty MPH winds kept both snow and plow drivers on the roads.

"We got crazy winds out there, so there's a lot of snow moving through the air that's not even falling out of the sky, it's just stuff that's being picked up off the ground and tossed across the road," Michels said.

The road commission has been out on the roads 24 hours a day, trying to keep up with the accumulation, but they say you should try to stay off of the them until the storm stops sometime Monday or Tuesday.