The 1940 Armistice Day storm was a very bad one. I have read many accounts of it, many in hunting journals. A lot of hunters died, along with many more Great Lakes sailors than went down on the Fitz.
It appears another one is going on now, just as I'm getting ready to leave Nawth Flawaduh in the AM for the Michigan deer season. Brrrrrrrr.
I was in South Bend for the January 26-28, 1978 megastorm. Never seen snow fall like that before or since.