About 12.000 flights across the US scheduled for the weekend were canceled today after a major snow and ice storm wreaked havoc across the country, threatening to cause power outages.
About 140 million people, or more than 40 percent of the U.S. population, were under winter storm warnings from New Mexico to New England.
The National Weather Service forecast warned of widespread heavy snowfall and an ice belt stretching from East Texas to North Carolina.
0,6 centimeters of ice was reported today in parts of southeastern Oklahoma, eastern Texas and parts of Louisiana.
Meteorologists said that immediately after this storm it will be very cold, so the snow and ice will melt slowly.
The Texas Department of Transportation said today that many highways were covered in snow in the suburbs north of Dallas. Ice and sleet that hit North Texas overnight continued to fall in the central part of the state.
Ice formed on roads and bridges in a third of Mississippi counties.
More than 112.000 power outages were reported nationwide, including about 55.000 in Texas, 13.700 in Louisiana and nearly 11.800 in New Mexico.
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