It's still early, but a combination of ice, snow, and high winds may result in treacherous travel conditions by the middle of next week, with blizzard or near-blizzard conditions a very real possibility.
Comparisons to the Halloween Blizzard of '91 were, in retrospect, a bad idea, but even though there wasn't a broad area of 2-foot-plus snows, an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 square miles picked up a foot or more of snow.
Minnesotans are accustomed to snowstorms of every shape and flavor. Plowable snow? Ho-hum. But the storm brewing for Wednesday and Thursday may be a rare "crippling" storm capable of shutting down a wide swath of both Minnesota and Wisconsin.