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<\/p>\nA massive winter storm continued Sunday morning, dumping sleet, freezing rain and snow across the South and up through New England, bringing frigid temperatures, widespread power outages and treacherous road conditions.<\/p>\n
The ice and snowfall were expected to continue through Monday in much of the country, followed by very low temperatures, causing \u201cdangerous travel and infrastructure impacts\u201d to linger for several days, the National Weather Service said.<\/p>\n
Heavy snow was forecast from the Ohio Valley to the Northeast, while \u201ccatastrophic ice accumulation\u201d threatened from the Lower Mississippi Valley to the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast.<\/p>\n
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D-FW Weather Wise<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a unique storm in the sense that it is so widespread,\u201d weather service meteorologist Allison Santorelli said in a phone interview. \u201cIt was affecting areas all the way from New Mexico, Texas, all the way into New England, so we\u2019re talking like a 2,000 mile spread.\u201d<\/p>\n
As of Sunday morning, about 213 million people were under some sort of winter weather warning, she said. The number of customers without power topped 880,000, according to poweroutage.us, and the number was rising.<\/p>\n
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Tennessee was hardest hit with nearly 300,000 customers out, and Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi all had more than 100,000 customers in the dark.<\/p>\n
Some 11,000 flights had already been canceled Sunday and more than 12,000 have been delayed, according to the flight tracker flightaware.com. The biggest hubs hit so far were in Philadelphia, Washington, Raleigh-Durham in North Carolina, New York and New Jersey.<\/p>\n
At Philadelphia International Airport, inside displays registered scores of canceled flights and few vehicles could be seen arriving Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
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Even once the ice and snow stop falling, the danger will continue, Santorelli warned.<\/p>\n
\u201cBehind the storm it\u2019s just going to get bitterly cold across basically the entirety of the eastern two-thirds of the nation, east of the Rockies,\u201d she said. That means the ice and snow won\u2019t melt as fast, which could hinder some efforts to restore power and other infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Along the Gulf Coast, temperatures were balmy Sunday, hitting the high 60s and low 70s, but temperatures were expected to drop into the high 20s and low 30s by Monday morning. The National Weather Service warned of damaging winds and a slight risk of severe storms and even a brief tornado.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump had approved emergency declarations for at least a dozen states by Saturday, with more expected to come. The Federal Emergency Management Agency pre-positioned commodities, staff and search and rescue teams in numerous states, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.<\/p>\n
In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at least five people died as temperatures plunged Saturday before the snows arrived in earnest.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile it\u2019s still too early to determine the causes of death, it is a reminder that every year New Yorkers succumb to the cold,\u201d he wrote on X. \u201cThe danger of this weather cannot be overstated.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Democrat also announced that Monday would be a remote learning day for students in the nation\u2019s largest school system.<\/p>\n
Nashville and the surrounding area was seeing ice accumulations of half an inch or more, with icicles hanging from power lines and overburdened tree limbs crashing to the ground.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe typically say that once you start seeing, you know, roughly a half an inch of ice, that\u2019s when you\u2019re going to start seeing the more widespread power outages,\u201d Santorelli said.<\/p>\n
In Oxford, Miss., police on Sunday morning used social media to tell residents to stay home as the danger of being outside was too great. Local utility crews were also pulled from their jobs during the overnight hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cDue to life-threatening conditions, Oxford Utilities has made the difficult decision to pull our crews off the road for the night,\u201d the utility company posted on Facebook early Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe situation is currently too dangerous to continue,\u201d it said. \u201cTrees are actively snapping and falling around our linemen while they are in the bucket trucks. We simply cannot clear the lines faster than the limbs are falling.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tippah Electric Power in Mississippi said there was \u201ccatastrophic damage\u201d and that it could be \u201cweeks instead of days\u201d to restore everyone.<\/p>\n
The Tennessee Valley Authority provides power to some utilities across the region, and spokesperson Scott Brooks said the bulk power system remains stable but overnight icing had caused power interruptions in north Mississippi, north Alabama, southern middle Tennessee and the Knoxville, Tennessee, area.<\/p>\n
Icy roads made travel dangerous in north Georgia, where the Cherokee County Sheriff\u2019s office posted on Facebook, \u201cYou know it\u2019s bad when Waffle House is closed!!!\u201d along with a photo of a shuttered restaurant. Whether the chain\u2019s restaurants are open \u2014 known as the Waffle House Index \u2014 has become an informal way to gauge the severity of weather disasters across the South.<\/p>\n
The winter storm that hit the South and East Coast brought frigid temperatures, widespread power outages, and treacherous road conditions. The storm’s impact was felt across a wide area, with over 213 million people under some sort of winter weather warning. The danger will continue even after the storm has passed, with bitterly cold temperatures and icy roads making travel and infrastructure restoration efforts difficult.<\/p>\n
A: The winter storm affected areas from New Mexico and Texas to the East Coast, including<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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