A powerful, messy winter storm charging up East Coast leaves 200,000 without power

A major winter storm moving into the northeast United States overnight Monday, which at one point
left as many as 80 million under winter weather alerts from Mississippi to Maine, cut off power to about
200,000 people and prompted warnings from state officials for people to stay home.

The National Weather Service predicted on Monday heavy snowfall over parts of the Lower Great Lakes,
Central Appalachians and the Northeast, along with rain over southern and northern New England and
possible flooding along the eastern coastline.

After dumping up to a foot of snow across the Upper Midwest and Corn Belt on Friday and slipping into
the Mid-South on Saturday, a mix of frozen precipitation was spreading up the eastern seaboard by
Sunday night. The storm will move into southeastern Canada by Tuesday, while “scattered areas of light
snow will linger over parts of the Central Appalachians to the higher elevations of the Northeast,” the
National Weather Service said.

At least 20 states were expected to feel

the impact of the storm.

Snow and ice affected southern areas unaccustomed to such weather, including northern parts of
Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, as well as the interior Carolinas. Over the weekend, several governors
issued state of emergency proclamations, including North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) and South
Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R).

More than 30,000 households were without power in North and South Carolina early Monday, according
to a website that tracks outages, PowerOutage.us.

Meanwhile, in New York, winter storm warnings were in effect Monday as well as coastal flooding
warnings. The office of Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) warned that snow could fall at a rate of up to three inches
an hour in parts of the state while the combination of heavy snow, ice, rain and strong winds “will cause
difficult travel conditions and the potential for power outages” from Sunday evening and through
Monday afternoon.
“New York is poised to experience one of the largest storms so far this winter,” Hochul said in a
statement which encouraged New Yorkers to stay home and off the roads.

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