The Kansas City metro is still digging itself out from a nearly-record 11 inches of snow that got dumped by a blizzard over the weekend. Roads remain icy and treacherous, however, and much of the city remains shut down.

If you saw light pillars shining down from the sky early Tuesday morning in Kansas City, don't fret. You're not crazy, you're eyesight isn't going, and no, we are not experiencing an alien invasion

Every state from Kansas to Delaware logged at least one report of 10 inches or more of snow. At one point, some 70 million Americans were under winter storm warnings.