Thousands of flights canceled as major winter storm bears down

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Thousands of flights canceled as major winter storm bears down

> More than 8,000 flights across the U.S. set to take off over the weekend have been canceled as a major storm expected to wreak havoc across much of the country bears down, threatening to knock out power for days and snarl major roadways.

> Roughly 140 million people were under a winter storm warning from New Mexico to New England. The National Weather Service forecast warns of widespread heavy #snow and a band of catastrophic ice stretching from east Texas to North Carolina.

> Forecasters say damage, especially in areas pounded by ice, could rival that of a hurricane.

> By Friday night, the edge of the storm was sending freezing rain and sleet into parts of Texas while snow and sleet were falling in Oklahoma. After sweeping through the South, the storm was expected to move into the Northeast, dumping about a foot (30 centimeters) of snow from Washington through New York and Boston, the weather service predicted.
https://apnews.com/article/storm-texas-oklahoma-ice-snow-a94c9d155615333a50e174a4d7d54fc1 #weather #storm